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I find the characters in my head and the more I write about them, the better I get to know them.
There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get
I wouldn't like to live in a world where everything's as cut-and-dried as most people think it is
We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on.
Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tell.
Wondering’s healthy. Broadens the mind. Opens you up to all sorts of stray thoughts and possibilities.
The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it.
It's not something you can prove....I know you hate to hear this, but you either have it, or you don't.
Writing music uses a whole different process that involves a lot of noodling and just seeing what comes.
Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference.
There was too much going on here -- too much that strayed from odd all the way over into seriously weird.
Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.
Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?
One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.
It may sound trite, but using the weapons of the enemy, no matter how good one's intentions, makes one the enemy.
I'm not as trusting as people think I am. Sure, I see the best in people, but that doesn't mean it's really there.
That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.
Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.
The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter.
It's good to have mysteries. It reminds us that there's more to the world than just making do and having a bit of fun.
The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can actually trick yourself into feeling better.
When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it.
I can’t imagine it now, but I must’ve been innocent at some time in my life. A baby don’t just get itself born bad, do it?
Look inside yourself for the answers - you're the only one who knows what's best for you. Everybody else is only guessing.
You walk around with a negative attitude and you're just naturally going to bring trouble and hard times down on yourself.
It's the questions we ask, the journey we take to get to where we are going that is more important than the actual answer.
Lies were like having a pregnant rabbit. One day you had one, but before you knew it, there were rabbits all over the place.
I don't know what's waiting for us when we die--something better, something worse. I only know I'm not ready to find out yet.
What I want to do is travel deep and deeper into the dreamlands, to find that place that I know is waiting for me here. My home.
Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?
Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's the choices we make that define who we really are.
It's not the work or the personality of the founder of a religion that's important, but what its followers do with what they learn.
Well, you know this world isn't perfect.' 'No, you're wrong. This world IS perfect, people just come along and mess it up sometimes.
She hoped he was running to his red deer woman, and that when he tapped on the door of her heart, she'd open it wide and let him in.
As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.
You wouldn't want any creative process to lose its sense of fun and adventure, but that doesn't mean you can't take it seriously as well.
I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or herstory or life story.
My characters seem real because they are drawn from the realities of my life. I didn't have to research their pain; I just tapped into my own.
Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.
You don't have to be Michelangelo to teach basic art, just as you don't have to be Shakespeare to be able to teach the correct use of language.
Books and music saved me as a teenager because it was through them that I realized that I wasn't alone in my obsessive love for words and music.
The thing to remember when you're writing is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's whether it wakes a truth in your reader.
I was going through the motions of life, instead of really living, and there's no excuse for that. It's not something I'll let happen to me again.
There are as many stories to be told as there are people to tell them about; only the mean-spirited would consider there to be a competition at all.
Compromise is necessary so long as you never give up who you are. That isn't compromise; that's spiritual death. You have to remain true to yourself.
There's bad apples in whatever way you want to group people - doesn't matter if it's religious, political or social. The big mistake is generalizing.
A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.
An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silent space in the world song that can never be filled.
The best artists know what to leave out. They know how much of the support should show through as the pigment is applied, what details aren't necessary.
If you don't believe that the world has a heart, then you won't hear it beating, you won't think it's alive and you won't consider what you're doing to it.