Occupation: Film Writer Birth: October 19, 1946
You don't win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else does..
'Thou shalt not' might reach the head, but it takes 'Once upon a time' to reach the heart..
There will be days when the stuff is not flowing freely. What you do then is MAKE IT UP!.
I'm superstitious about the paper that I use, for example. I've written all my novels on a paper of a particular size with lines of a particular dist….
What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I'd learned in seven years o….
I seemed to have spent the whole time either reading, which I loved, or laughing, which I love, or fooling about, which I loved. There was the usual ….
We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of # libraries it opens, not the number it closes down..
We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not, or die of despair...death will sweep through all the worlds; it will be the tr….
Corruption and envy and lust for power. Cruelty and coldness. A vicious probing curiousity. Pure, poisonous, toxic malice. You have never from your e….
All the stories of the Bible that I know came to me first from my grandfather's lips... He would see stories in everything. He told stories very easi….
You don't read it in the sense of reading a message; it doesn't work like that. What's happening is that the Shadows are responding to the attention ….
Both the Oblation Board and the Specters of Indifference are bewitched by this truth about human beings: that innocence is different from experience.….
If a witch needs something, another witch will give it to her. If there is war to be fought, we don't consider cost one of the factors in deciding wh….
I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everyt….
But we can trust him Roger, I swear," she said with a final effort,"Because he's Will..
I wanted the chance to look again at very famous stories and see what made them work well, whether there were any ways in which they could be improve….
But suppose your dæmon settles in a shape you don't like? Well, then, you're discontented, en't you? There's plenty of folk as'd like to have a lion ….
When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed..
And among academicians, and among spirits. I found folly everywhere, but there were grains of wisdom in every stream of it. No doubt there was much m….
I will love you for ever, whatever happens. Till I die and after I die, and when I find my way out of the land of the dead I'll drift about forever, ….
I don't expect Christians to see God as a metaphor, but that's what he is. Perhaps it might be clearer to call him a character in fiction, and a very….