I was thinking one of the great things about fiction is we, as a race, only get to look out of our own eyes at the world. And fiction is a fantastic way of looking out through somebody else’s eyes.
I think hell is something you carry around with you, not somewhere you go.
Let’s start a new tomorrow, today.
Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.
Libraries are our friends.
We get to experience the same thing in very different ways with different parts of ourselves.
We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways, because they are our stories.
Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.
I very rarely want to go back and fix things, because I’m much more interested in the next thing, and in taking what I learned from the things that don’t work, and applying them to new things that may work.
You have to finish things – that’s what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.
People think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.
The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.
Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.
Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did.
If it’s true that every seven years each cell in your body dies and is replaced, then I have truly inherited my life from a dead man; and the misdeeds of those times have been forgiven, and are buried with his bones.
Is there any person in the world who does not dream? Who does not contain within them worlds unimagined?
I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.
Picking one of your favorite creation or character is like picking the best one of your children! I’m not sure it really works. My very favorite characters tend to be ones I can go back to and look at, and have no idea how they popped out of my head.
Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism.