Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep moving.
The real world has no obligation to be convincing, so it throws up some very weird moments sometimes.
Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before. Whatever you’re scared of doing, Do it.
Fiction takes us to places that we would never otherwise go, and puts us behind eyes that are not our own.
Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.
Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.
A world in which there are monsters, and ghosts, and things that want to steal your heart is a world in which there are angels, and dreams and a world in which there is hope.
People who believe they’ll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, learn it doesn’t work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.
Real life doesn’t have to be convincing, but fiction does.
There is something about riding a unicorn, for those people who still can, which is unlike any other experience: exhilarating, and intoxicating, and fine.
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.