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Yes. But sad's alright. Sad's just apart of everything

Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep.

There's light and joy, but there's also darkness all around and we can be lost in it.

Death is hungry and Destruction is determined and it does not like its intended victims to get away.

If you can imagine doing something, then you can do it.

Words should wander and meander. They should fly like owls and flicker like bats and slip like cats. They should murmur and scream and dance and sing.

We are all wanderers and travellers, refugees and pilgrims until we return once more to the stars.

I was born in a hovel on the banks of the Tyne, as so many of us were back then.

This might be heaven!
We might be living in heaven right now!
And we might be the angels!

The world will be our oyster. We'll be wandering stars. We'll be footloose and free.

I learned to be a regional writer by reading people like Flannery O'Connor. She was a huge influence.

Nobody. Mr nobody. Mr bones and mr had enough and mr arthur itis. Now get out and leave me alone.

You're my best boy. Whatever happens, you'll always be my best boy.

Can love help a person to get better?' I asked.

I am Billy Dean. This is the truth. This is my tail.

Sometimes children must be left alone to be still and silent, and to do.

I won't ask for enything mor complicated today as I don't wish to further disapoynt myself.

I woke up and knew he was gone.
Straightaway I knew he was gone. When you love somebody you know these things.

The letters make words and words make us.

In the end she just said ... All I did was to run away for a few minutes! All I wanted was to be free!

You must live in peace," he told us. "We are only in this world for a short period of vivid and wonderful waking in an eternity of dreamless dark.

All of us can do what we like."
"No we can't. You're stupid if you think so.

We thought a little longer, and in the end we simply called her Joy.

The beauties of the North seemed to be intensified by the loss we had experienced there, and they drew us back to them.

Themes around education and learning run through my work.

How can you turn yourself into something you want to be when you're alredy what you are?

The best tip for writing is just to write; to sit down and write, to begin doing it and not to be scared by the blank page.

He narrows his eyes.
"Is this true?" He sighs. "It is, isn't it? That's all I need.

Look at the earth and you think it's solid," he said. "But look deeper and you'll see it's riddled with tunnels. A warren. A labyrinth.

She points at my chest.
"And much more interestingly, what's that?"
"Blood," I say.
She gets her camera out.

A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference.

I sit in my tree I sing like the birds My beak is my pen My songs are my poems.

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It was great to see the owls," I said.
She smiled.
"Yes. They're wild things, of course. Killers, savages. They're wonderful.

Maybe we're all in somebody's dream. Maybe everything's a dream, and nothing else.

What is the purpose of living if there are no perils to be encountered and overcome?

Drawing makes you look at the world more closely. It helps you see what you're looking at more clearly. Did you know that?

We roamed between the angels and the eagles. Bats flickered against the starry sky. Moonlight poured down

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The season of evil," I echoed. "Protect your soul.

And what is wrong with playing with words? Words love to be played with, just like children or kittens do!

The sounds and rhythms of words are really important to me.

It's so strange: grown-ups trying to become young, young ones trying to grow up and all the time, whatever people want, time moves forward, forward.

Maybe poets get to you best when you're sort of dreaming, when you're hardly there at all.

Everybody's got the seam of goodness in them, Kit," said Grandpa. "Just a matter of whether it can be found and brought out into the light.

My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two.

Truth and dreams are always getting muddled.
Mina

I know I'm writing better now than I ever did for adults because I'm writing for an audience who know that they don't know everything.

Writing will be like a journey, every word a footstep that takes me further into undiscovered land.

Live an adventure. Live like you're in a story.