Learn as much as you can. Take every opportunity to learn about writing, whether it’s through classes, workshops, whatever is available to you. This …

- Theodora Goss

It's appropriate to have magic in a love story, because magic is a sort of metaphor for what love feels like? When we fall in love, the world feels m…

- Theodora Goss

I've heard some readers saying they wished the story was longer, and I completely understand that desire - we all like to sink into a nice, long nove…

- Theodora Goss

I put that part of myself into both Brendan and Evelyn [from The Thorn and the Blossom] - as well as some of my own anxieties about the academic life!

- Theodora Goss

Perhaps it’s when you come to the realization that the point of life isn’t to be rich, or secure, or even to be loved - to be any of the things that …

- Theodora Goss

I think part of my purpose in this life is to talk about magic, and to make it.

- Theodora Goss

If you’re a writer, your first duty, a duty you owe to yourself and your readers, and to your writing itself, is to become wonderful. To become the b…

- Theodora Goss

The Thorn and The Blossom can be read from either side - you can choose whether to read it from Brendan's or Evelyn's perspective first, and each one…

- Theodora Goss

Write all the time. I believe in writing every day, at least a thousand words a day. We have a strange idea about writing: that it can be done, and d…

- Theodora Goss