Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism.
I love CGI if it’s invisible. I don’t like it when it’s there and obvious.
Sometimes I wish that just solving the plot problems was enough. And then elves would go and do all the actual work moving the words around.
May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness.
A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it.
Virginia is the place, where, technologically speaking, they will burn people at the stake for possessing such things as toasters.
I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see us reading, then we learn, we exercise our imaginations. We show others that reading is a good thing.
Nothing I did where the only reason for doing it was the money was ever worth it, except as bitter experience.
I don’t think about age groups when I write, although I think if I know I’m writing for Children I’ll be a bit more ambitious, and think more about every word, because I know that they pay closer attention when they read than adults do.
I hope the strong women out there aren’t quiet and they don’t go away, because when people attack you for speaking, the best way to drive them nuts is to smile and carry on speaking, louder, more wisely, more intensely, more articulately than ever.
There are lots of artists in the world. But there’s only one you. And the only person who has your point of view is you. If you decide not to make things, all you’ve done is deprive the world of all the stuff that only you could have brought to it.
Put one word after another. Find the right word, put it down.
I enjoy writing scripts. I can find out what happens. With an outline, I feel like I’m doing an architectural diagram of something.
I liked myths. They weren’t adult stories and they weren’t children’s stories. They were better than that. They just were.
If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future.
Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.
Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.
You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we’re doing it.
Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.
This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.