It may sound trite, but using the weapons of the enemy, no matter how good one's intentions, makes one the enemy..

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..

I want to be magic. I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile. I want to be a friend of elves and live in a tree. Or under a hill. I w….

The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel..

You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow..

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..

Not everything has to mean something. Some things just are..

Let me give you some advice: Try to approach things without preconceived ideas, without supposing you already know everything there is to know about ….

I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?.

Wisdom never comes to those who believe they have nothing left to learn..

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 fille….

There were two forests for every one you entered. There was the one you walked in, the physical echo, and then there was the one that was connected t….

I don't think the world is the way we like to think it is. I don't think it's one solid world, but many, thousands upon thousands of them--as many as….

I don't actually talk about my books much, because I find if I talk about them I don't want to write them anymore. I write to find out what happens. ….

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..

The family we choose for ourselves is more important than the one we were born into; that people have to earn our respect and trust, not have it hand….

I'm a writer and this is what I do no matter what name we put to it. Year by year, the world is turning into a darker and stranger place than any of ….

One cannot seek to uphold honor in a being that has none..

All my life I've wanted to be the kid who gets to cross over into the magical kingdom..

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..

As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary..