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I had a connoisseur's ... appreciation of fear.

Dick Dart emerged from the ether during a flight from New York with my wife and children to Puerto Rico.

Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking.

The day was a long bolt of gray cloth; endless.

I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.

I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do.

The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people.

Everyone wants to get better as they go along, but sometimes it's all you can do to stay consistent.

Whatever his circumstances and surroundings, it was only a dead imagination that could call him a failure.

The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth.

(Another writer once asked me why I wrote about "nebbishes." I told him I wanted to write about "the common man.") Sometimes I even

She thought, instead, with longing of more books - of buying books - of slipping into a narrative of other people's lives. That was release.

I believe I encountered death, which was a bit too much for a seven-year-old.

Adventure is a nameless joy

God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction.

Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity.

and rising extremely unlike Phoebus with the dawn to prepare the schoolhouse.

The mind was a trap
it was a cage that slammed down over you.

I'm being haunted," she blurted out.
"My dear," he cooed. "Turn yourself into a tourist attraction and charge admission.

Close your mouth and get out of the way, because here comes Kelly Link, than whom no one is better.

I have been sometimes way too attracted by my own villains because in a way they seem to hold the secret to the heart of the narrative.

An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm.

Wolves and those who see them are shot on sight.

If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.

Each new book is a tremendous challenge.

Could you defeat a cloud, a dream, a poem?

Wolf! Right here and now!

David," I said, "no matter what my intentions are, everything I write winds up turning into fiction, including my letters to friends.

Nothing is whole, not for too damned long. The world is half night.

A long time ago, when we all lived in the forest and none of us lived anywhere else,

What we do here is physiologically impossible. So we must train the body to accept the impossible, and then it will become possible.

Sometimes it is right to fear the dark.

A lyrical, brave and complex novel that takes enormous risks and pulls them all off.

Her sense of humor went south about a minute after I tied her up.

It was incomprehensible to Ricky that anyone could find Milburn boring: if you watched it closely for seventy years, you saw the century at work.

Facing a wall when you write really aids your concentration.

Occasionally..what you have to do is go back to the beginning and see everything in a new way.

She tasted what she had said and found it sour enough to be accurate.

It's a good thing you write fiction. If you had to describe the real world, nobody would recognize it.

And then a prince will come along and say the magic words and three ravens will give you the magic tokens and a fish will carry you on his back

You'll never get anything done if you walk around with an unchipped heart.

I liked the place I came from.
But a lot of what I liked about it was that I had come from there.

She thought it was too bad it didn't work the other way around, so you could get braver and smarter as you move up in years. But

Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary.

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.

I don't shy from writing about incredibly unpleasant, distressing things. And I get a kick out of it I confess. I like doing that.

But you do not reject the supernatural out of hand,' Sears said. 'I don't know if I do or do not,' I said. 'Like most people.

It didn't have a real ending. It just slipped backward when other things happened.

In Classical Greek the word pathos was the same for both suffering and experience. Those Greeks knew a good joke when they heard one.

He was having, under trying circumstances, the best time he could, which is one definition of heroism;

Sometimes, it seems like sighted people can hardly see anything.

However, I think I managed to reach a new level with Koko, and I will always be grateful for the experience.