She wondered whether there would ever come an hour in her life when she didn't think of him -- didn't speak to him in her head, didn't relive every m….

I'm perfectly happy about being superstitious and atheistic..

Long before writing, people were telling each other stories and the audiobook goes all the way back to that tradition..

Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all..

It does not make sense. It cannot exist. It's impossible, and if it isn't impossible, it's irrelevant, and if it isn't either of those things, it's e….

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world..

For every once upon a time there must be a story to follow, because if a story doesn't, something else will, and it might not be as harmless as a sto….

There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good boo….

I don't profess any religion; I don't think it's possible that there is a God.... My books are about killing God..

You are dead- what am I speaking to?.

Do not lie to the Scholar..

What is worth having is worth working for..

If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you've finished the three pages, don't write it; it….

Lord, if I thought you were listening, I'd pray for this above all: that any church set up in your name should remain poor, and powerless, and modest….

We have to learn everything we do..

I'm just trying to wake up - I'm so afraid of sleeping all my life and then dying - I want to wake up first. I wouldn't care if it was just for an ho….

As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other kind of doctrine with a holy book and a priesthoo….

I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what p….

A story, to me, has a particular sprite, like the angel of the spirit of that story - and it's my job to attend to what it wants to do..

And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is that this is a good deed, because it ….

Just sort of relax your mind and say yes, it does hurt, I know. Don't try and shut it out..