It's never perfect when I write it down the first time, or the second time, or the fifth time. But it always gets better as I go over it and over it..

If you love a waist, you waste a love..

Just write. If you have to make a choice, if you say, 'Oh well, I'm going to put the writing away until my children are grown,' then you don't really….

We all have such stories. It is a brutal arithmetic. But I - I am alive. You are alive. As long as we breathe, we can see and hear. As long as we can….

Well,' the Goddess said, 'your heart didn't heal straight the last time it broke. So we'll break it again and reset it so it heals straight this time..

You are a name, not a number. Never forget that name, whatever they tell you here. You will always be Chaya—life—to me..

Readers re-create any story to suit their own needs. They re-clothe the story in their own shirts. Put simply: just as we write the story we need to ….

Intuition works best when you remember that “tuition” is part of it. You need to have paid ahead of time (ie done your prep work) so as to prepare th….

Time may heal all wounds, but it does not erase the scars..

I have always been jealous of artists. The smell of the studio, the names of the various tools, the look of a half-finished canvas all shout of creat….

Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood..

What makes a good book? Scholars and critics have been debating that question for decades. I like books that touch my head and my heart at the same t….

Growth in the ability to write comes in spurts..

Sometimes living takes more courage than dying..

The thing I want to know is, if you tell your brain not to do stuff... and it keeps doing it anyway, does that mean your mind has a mind of its own? ….

The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaking to the human condition, the longings we all ha….

Language helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition..

It is the last thing we learn, / listening to the creature world..

Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing... the rest will follow..

A shadowless man is a monster, a devil, a thing of evil. A man without a shadow is soulless. A shadow without a man is a pitiable shred. Yet together….

You know how it is: as soon as you decide to forget something, your brain comes to the conclusion that it's the most fascinating thing in the world..