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It's lovely. I hate it.
No one is ever ordinary.
Tales of heroes end in bliss.
Whatever the hell I am, I am Me.
Pirates have always fascinated me.
No one more cynical than an idealist.
It was so useful to lie with the truth.
If you run away from trouble, it always follows.
I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.
You should visit before you pass judgment on a place.
The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.
Flat or round, there has always been hate in the world.
Dawn rose from the desert and turned the river to wine.
I haven't changed. Something's happened to me, that's all.
When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it.
Your dreams will betray you. Go nowhere on a horse that fades.
I will draw you back to me. You shall see. By a chain of stars.
I hardly ever work from a synopsis -- I find they act like chains.
Never be afraid of a cliché, if it expresses what you wish to say.
Condemned and executioner with aren't coupled in a primitive rite.
Madness. I did not get myself born to die. I have better things to do.
I've been criticised for writing in too complex a manner for younger people.
I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.
Im a devotee of Dracula, which was a pathfinder in horror and vampire fiction.
Archetypes are universal, and, in subtle or extravagant ways, interchangeable.
We all have our dreams. May we find them, and God have mercy on us when we do.
We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.
Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.
The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar.
When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!
I came up with a parallel Venice called Venus. set in a parallel Venice about 1701.
Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote.
Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death; one more death of the heart.
The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty.
He sat by her, watching every gesture she made, as if he would paint her portrait afterward.
The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these.
I tend not to analyse my work, though I'm frequently intrigued when other people take time to do so.
What is any of this to us? Time is endless and ours. Love and Death are only the games we play in it.
I never know where I am going, though. That is part of what makes it so wonderful. And after all, who does?
I began to feel lighthearted. Don't ever do that; it tempts some dark and evil force abroad in the universe.
I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.
Danger and anger are everywhere. Love is the rarity, the gem buried in the core of the mine, the outpost of God.
If you run away from trouble, it always follows.' Rather my impression, too. Though that never stopped me trying.
As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
It was not apathy. It was an intelligent disinterest in those things that could have no bearing on one's existence.
I'm not very good at being alive. Sometimes I despair of ever mastering it, getting it right. When I'm old, perhaps.
It gets cold in the desert at night, particularly up in the mountains; the stars hammer on the rock and strike frost.
Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.
The dictate of the light says: Know yourself and what you are. The dark replies, By all means, but then become afraid.