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Perhaps fantasy offers imaginative escapism more than other genres.

I just write books, and I do it without any notion of what I should do or shouldn't do.

Every book should have a romance.

When I was about 10 or 11, I realised that people made movies; until then, I had thought they just happened.

Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.

Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.

Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable.

Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.

Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all.

Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

Sorry," [Hamlet] said, rubbing his temples. "I don't know what came over me. All of a sudden I had this overwhelming desire to talk for a very long time without actually doing anything.

Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.

Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.

Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.

After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer - perhaps more.

Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world.

Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.

I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.

[from the television show,"Evade the Question Time"]At the end of the first round, I will award three points to Mr. Kaine for an excellent nonspecific condemnation, plus one bonus point for blaming the previous government and another for successfully mutating the question to promote the party line. Mr. van de Poste gets a point for a firm rebuttal, but only two points for his condemnation, as he tried to inject an impartial and intelligent observation.

"Edward, Edward," he said with a patronising smile, "there are no unanswered questions of any relevance. Every question that we need to ask has been answered fully. If you can't find the correct answer then you are obviously asking the wrong question."

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.