Most times we only see things for the way we are. But we're good at lying to ourselves. Sometimes we need somebody who's not living in our skin to po….

Dying doesn't end anything - it just changes where you are.

When you're touched by magic, nothing's ever quite the same again. What really makes me sad is all those people who never have the chance to know tha….

All forests have their own personality. I don't just mean the obvious differences, like how an English woodland is different from a Central American ….

[She] had felt straight away that she wasn’t meeting a new friend, but recognizing an old one..

Well, while I didn't have the more extreme experiences of some of my characters, I didn't exactly come from the most normal of households. Or rather,….

I think a good writer is a mix of confidence (sure that what they're writing is going to appeal to their readers) and uncertainty (what if all these ….

Inside us lies every possibility that is available to a sentient being. Every darkness, every light. It is the choices we make that decide who or wha….

What do they say about meeting a bear in the woods? Oh right, you shouldn't. And to make sure you don't, you should make a lot of noise so that they'….

Writing music uses a whole different process that involves a lot of noodling and just seeing what comes..

Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference..

I like living in the city where I have all my books and music and can go out to buy that night's dinner or easily see a band. But I also like the wil….

It's not all about getting your own way. Sometimes there's a bigger picture..

We're so quick to cut away pieces of ourselves to suit a particular relationship, a job, a circle of friends, incessantly editing who we are until we….

The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter..

Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused - hence all the old tales of elfin kingdoms moving further and further away from our world, or th….

If you don't believe that the world has a heart, then you won't hear it beating, you won't think it's alive and you won't consider what you're doing ….

It's not something you can prove....I know you hate to hear this, but you either have it, or you don't..

The real trouble comes from not knowing what we really want in the first place..

It seems like I always wrote, I just didn't think of it as a career choice. I just liked to tell stories ... to myself, to pen pals (I had a lot of t….

The puppet thinks: It's not so much what they make me do as their hands inside me..