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My attitude is that if anybody of any age wants to read a book, let them, but I do think that no child would want to read 'Boneland.'

Oh, drop dead, you miserable cow.

I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.

I wanted us to have a holiday, not a ruddy breakdown.

I'll buy metaphor, but simile's a cop-out used by scaredycats who won't commit to anything. Simile's for cowards.

I wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.

My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.

It's where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this. Plus it's not a purse, it's called a satchel. Indiana Jones wears one.

My mother read nursery rhymes to me, and my grandmother told me folk stories, but as a child I had no interest in writing whatsoever.

My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.

The deed is nothing. It is the thought that breeds fear; and we achieve little by lingering.

'They don't know what it's like. Inside. For them it's only fun, even though I tell them it isn't. You see I don't delete. Anything. Ever.

I loathe crowds. I especially don't like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.

If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.

As far as the world was concerned, from 1979 to 1996, I didn't publish any original material; it just wasn't there.

The walls were shedding their texture and taking another in the pouncing feathers. Gwyn

Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.

I've learned never to try and force words to come.

Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.

But what can we do?" said Susan.
"Think, and hope," said Cadellin.
"I would rather seek and find," said Uthecar.

My primary tongue, I would call North-West Mercian.

Im not supposed to be within two hundred feet of a school or a Chuck E. Cheese.

She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.

I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.

When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it's funny in any language.

Hitting the gym to release stress is not nearly as effective as hitting the people that cause the stress to begin with.