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For me, I would rather read a good book, from a contented author. I don't really care what it takes to produce that.
EVERY ENDING IS A NEW BEGINNING. YOUR LUCKY NUMBER IS NONE. YOUR LUCKY COLOUR IS DEAD. Motto: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON.
I think that is something that I always like in my work - the sense of inclusion rather than the sense of otherness.
The world is always ending, and the end is always being averted, by love or foolishness or just plain old dumb luck.
Never trust a demon. He has a hundred motives for anything he does... ninety-nine of them, at least, are malevolent.
Diana used to tell me she had a travel jinx, something I only really started to believe when the plane door fell off.
The cartoon me writes the books cartoon people read in the cartoon world, because they need things to read there too.
I love making things. I love building things. I love the idea that something's in the world that wasn't there before.
Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.
Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.
That doesn't happen," she explained. "Stars fall. They don't go back up again." "You could be the first," he told her.
The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series.
I know that this is the internet, and we're all anonymous and all that, but really. It doesn't hurt to try to be nice.
I'm intrigued with figuring out the places [where] the horrible and the beautiful meet - that aesthetic fascinates me.
I think I love my dreaming process because one of the things that my dreaming process does is sort out stories for me.
It's not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it's yours, and then be willing to let it go.
When you say words a lot they don't mean anything. Or maybe they don't mean anything anyway, and we just think they do.
I was not happy as a child, although from time to time I was content. I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.
Sexton: I think the whole world's gone mad. Death: Uh-uh. It's always like this. You probably just don't get out enough.
We make choices. No one else can live our lives for us. And we must confront and accept the consequences of our actions.
He was alone in the darkness once more, but the darkness became brighter and brighter until it was burning like the sun.
When you die, they can make you into diamonds now. It’s scientific. That’s how I want to be remembered. I want to shine.
I think most things are pretty magical, and that it's less a matter of belief than it is one of just stopping to notice.
Amy: This time can we... lose the bunk beds? The Doctor: No Bunk beds are cool, a bed with a ladder, you can't beat that!
They all do the same things. They may think their sins are original, but for the most part they are petty and repetitive.
She had such unusual eyes. They made me think of the seaside, and so I called her Ocean, and could not have told you why.
I've known ambitious people with no aptitude for the thing they did. Most of whom, rather terrifyingly, tended to succeed.
It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with these
Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants.
Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost.
All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.
But standing in that hallway, it was all coming back to me. Memories were waiting at the edges of things, beckoning to me.
I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were.
We are always living in the final days. What have you got? A hundred years or much, much less until the end of your world.
None of this is truly happening," he said to Shadow. He sounded miserable. "It's all in your head. Best not to think of it.
And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop and watch it.
And then it went, and time passed properly once more, every second following every other second just like they're meant to.
Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all.
I remember making that vow, the one not to forget. Not to remember what happened, but to remember who I was and how I felt.
Any way, death is so final, isn't it? "Is it?" asked Richard. "Sometimes," said the marquis de Carabas. And they went down.
It’s easier to kill people, when you’re dead yourself. I mean, it’s not such a big deal. You’re not so prejudiced any more.
He would go somewhere no one knew him, and he would sit in a library all day and read books and listen to people breathing.
Write. Finish things. Get them published. Write something else while you're waiting for someone to publish the first thing.
People can get involved in wonderfully creative ways that have nothing to do with you, but spark off things you begin with.
It's one thing to want money, but if you find yourself choking on a coin as you wake, the money is slightly less desirable.
Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
She had the feeling that the door was looking at her, which she knew was silly, and knew on a deeper level was somehow true.
Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called.
Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.