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I like airplanes. I like anywhere that isn't a proper place. I like in betweens.
She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful.
What power would Hell have if those imprisoned were not able to dream of Heaven?
Adults should not weep, I knew. They did not have mothers who would comfort them.
People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales.
It's only a world, after all, and they're just sand grains in the desert, worlds.
It’s part of growing up, I suppose…you always have to leave something behind you.
The converse held reassuringly true: daylight was safe. Daylight was always safe.
Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams
Use your blog to connect. Use it as you. Don’t ‘network’ or ‘promote.’ Just talk.
Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.
I thought I was your destination. Looks like I was just another stop on the line.
The right song can turn an emperor into a laughingstock, can bring down dynasties.
I believe that anyone who says that sex is overrated just hasn't done it properly.
I am fascinated a) by transgressive art and b) what happens beyond the boundaries.
You don't have to test everything to destruction just to see if you made it right.
Once, I was a poet, and, like all poets, I spent too long in the Kingdom of Dreams.
It's a wonderful thing, as a writer, to be given parameters and walls and barriers.
As we age, we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in time.
A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.
Not only are there no happy endings,' she told him, 'there aren't even any endings.
Work. Home. The pub. Meeting girls. Living in the city. Life. Is that all there is?
Most of us only find our own voices after we've sounded like a lot of other people.
If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.
I felt very much like a hooker who had just been told she was a lady of the evening.
Watch out for that pedestrian!" "It's on the street, it knows the risks it's taking!
And I would try and walk far enough away that people would not assume I was with him.
It is sometimes a mistake to climb. It is always a mistake to never make the attempt.
Nice' in a bodyguard is about as useful as the ability to regurgitate whole lobsters.
It doesn't matter that you didn't believe in us," said Mr. Ibis. "We believed in you.
They were not my friends, after all. They were just the people I went to school with.
I'm bored," she said. "Learn how to tap-dance," he suggested, without turning around.
Like the newspapers used to say, if the truth isn't big enough, you print the legend.
Books smell and feel better. They have that wonderful thingness of turning the pages.
You have to finish things - that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.
Writing imaginative tales for the young is like sending coals to Newcastle. For coals.
The truth is, it's not the idea, it's never the idea, it's always what you do with it.
Read the books you love, tell people about authors you like, and don’t worry about it.
He was no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring because yesterday has brought it.
Bod shrugged. "So?" he said. "It's only death. I mean, all of my best friends are dead.
I loved the sound of the words, even if I was not entirely sure what all of them meant.
I'm English, and 'Doctor Who' was this thing that I've been watching since I was three.
You must never imagine, that just because something is funny, it is not also dangerous.
Classic authors should be older than I am, and wiser, and on-top of all their deadlines.
We do what we do, because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves.
Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that.
Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.
One thing I've learned: you can know anything, it's all there, you just have to find it.
It's not the fish you catch, it's the peace of mind you take home at the end of the day.
I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.