I suggest we depict penguins as callous and unfeeling creatures who insist on bringing up their children in what is little more than a large chest fr….

I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevi….

It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good..

Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic..

The inspiration comes from everywhere, from what I grew up with. There's so much silliness and nonsense in the world that we regard as normal working….

Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse..

Writing is not something you can do or you can't. It's not even something that 'other people do' or 'for smart people only' or even 'for people who f….

Do I have to talk to insane people?" "You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory..

Quarkbeasts, for all their fearsome looks, are obedient to a fault. They are nine-tenths velociraptor and kitchen blender and one-tenth Labrador. It ….

Don't move," said Sprockett."Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened..

I have the death sentence in seven genres..

I could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won, as it so often does..

How many people want to read about three disreputable pigs and a dopey wolf with a disposition towards house demolition?.

A good butler should save his employer's life at least once a day..

"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 ….

Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us..

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

Writing needs to be practiced; there is a limit to how much can be gleaned from a teacher or a manual. The true essence of writing is out there, in t….

He spent his life immersed in books to the cost of everything else, even personal relationships. "Friends," he'd once said, "are probably great, but ….

She wasn't the only one to be physically morphed by reader expectation. Miss Havisham was now elderly whether she liked it or not, and Sherlock Holme….

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