Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
No mother, no father, no Sight.
Bee stings are very educational
It's always better to be doing.
Time and death sleep side by side.
Unhand my tail!" squealed the Will.
Charity is a very labour-intensive virtue.
Who or what are you? Besides insufferably rude?
I love you," he whispered. "I hope you don't mind.
Do not tarry, do not stop, no matter what happens.
Yet when ancient forces stir, many things are woken.
Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?
Maybe if I act well enough, I'll come to believe it myself.
My parents are going to kill me!" "That seems rather harsh.
Choosers will be beggars if the begging's not their choosing.
Be careful..you're all I've got left, to remind me who I really am.
I can see time," whispered Mogget, so softly that his words were lost.
Let this be my final lesson. Everyone and everything has a time to die.
All of us recruits are equal in the eyes of the Army: low as you can go.
Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride.
Double, treble, quadruple bubble, watch the stock market get into trouble.
Just like the Perimeter! It never rains but it pours," declared the Major.
May I say that I approve of a piece that tries to remake the entire puzzle?
There is always a choice, even if the alternatives don't appear to be equal.
Sometimes it is easier to see the light when you stand partly in the darkness.
A hundred hundred heartbeats..." whispered Sabriel, tears falling down her face.
In all my books, I try to have a strong element of realism underlying the fantastic.
Fine!" muttered Mogget. "Wet, cold, and full of holes. Another fun day on the river.
Death and what came after death was no great mystery to Sabriel. She just wished it was.
A year ago, I turned the final page of The Book of the Dead. I don't feel young any more.
But we survived, didn’t we? That makes it an adventure. If you get killed it’s a tragedy.
Fish and fowl, warm sun and shady trees, the field mice in the wheat, under the cool light of the moon.
Interestingly, it is often the younger members of the audience who ask the most sophisticated questions.
The visions are fragmented and a dark cloud spreads like spilt ink across the pages of possible futures.
I am Abhorsen..." He looked at the baby again and added, almost with a note of surprise, "Father of Sabriel
I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age' rather than an age range.
Authors are influenced by everything they've ever read. If you've read widely enough, it helps you create your own mix.
Time plays tricks between here and home," said Mogget sepulchrally, frightening the life out of the telephone operator.
I have never known what to tell anybody. Except that it is better to do something than nothing, even if the cost is great.
Clearly the Old One had the capacity to kill - or easily deliver some sort of final ending that sounded remarkably like death.
For all my longer works (i.e. the novels) I write chapter outlines so I can have the pleasure of departing from them later on.
There were also very special or dangerous items that had to be fetched in person, or even by large parties of armed librarians.
Often, I get the feeling that the story is really happening somewhere and all I'm doing is trying to work out the best way to tell it.
I 'ad a toy when I was little,' said Suzy. She frowned for a moment, then added, 'Can't remember what it was. It moved and made me laugh.
Hear, hear," said the Dog, raising her head. "It's always better to be doing, Prince. Besides, you don't smell like a coward, so you can't be one.
Knowledge, like all things, is best in moderation," intoned the Will. "Knowing everything means you don't need to think, and that is very dangerous.
I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
I enjoyed the army reserve, and I learned a lot from it, but I also... it helped me work out that I didn't want to live in that kind of closed environment.
I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very young age. And reading seemed to naturally progress to writing.
With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.
In any genre you're working in, you can always find a way to tell a particular kind of story. I love fantasy; I love science fiction. I love all kinds of fiction, in fact.