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Practise make it perfect!

Perhaps every time anyone is praised it means that someone else somewhere is going to be ignored

I know things are unbearable but in spite of that we have to bear them.

In a way, the characters often do take over.

It's so dark - as if all the lights are just there to make the other places seem darker.

Every writer has to find their own way into writing.

Canadians are Americans with no Disneyland.

I don't know everything I feel, but I do know this. You mustn't ever want anyone but me, Big Science. If you look at any other girl I'll kill her.

Family! ... You might just as well celebrate battle, murder and sudden death.

I don't want to die, really. I'm interested in what happens next, so I've got to keep on.

You won't forget that," Claire assured her.
"I like things written down," Tabitha mumbled. "Then you've got them for good.

A man who builds a house never really dies.

You can't say you want things to be simple and then in the next breath ask me to be honest.

There's a lot of things you can put up with, as long as you're not related to them.

I'm the Beast. You're the Beauty," he said. "It's all a story, isn't it?

Fear can give you urgent wings.

New Zealand is the only country I know well enough to write about. It can sometimes lead to complications.

Pulverized by literature,' thought Miss Laburnum. 'The ideal way for a librarian to die.

I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation.

I, personally, have found reading a continual support to writing.

It changes you for ever, but you are changing for ever anyway.

Will you still love me when I'm a monster?

People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing's as eternal as the dishes.