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We are not punished for our sins, we are punished by them. We can't live with guilt for the whole of our lives..

A book which is left on a shelf is a dead thing but it is also a chrysalis, an inanimate object packed with the potential to burst into new life.

How many selves do we contain, like Russian dolls concealed within one another.

It would be difficult to write a convincing ghost story set on a sunny day in a big city.

In another life I would be a medievalist. I loved Chaucer, far more than Shakespeare.

...I was forced to live through it all, every minute and then every day thereafter...

The moment had gone. I carried my secrets still with me, and they were hard, heavy, bitter things.

I like going into a school matinee. I like to be behind the stage because there's a spy-hole and what you see is the best moment in all theatre.

I don't understand it when people get cross about how one of their works was adapted and say, 'Oh, they ruined it!' Well, the book is still there.

I had changed, and gone on changing, but I did not fully remember how it had begun, or understand why.

I'm really quite hard to scare so it was about mining times when I have jumped, and what creeps me out.

...the past still held secrets, the past threw its shadows...

I had been right, this was just the sort of place where superstition and tittle-tattle were rife, and even allowed to hold sway over commonsense. Now,

It is okay to climb as long as you are not afraid, because being afraid is what made you fall

...everything had changed, and she had crumpled in front of me, and become wholly broken and lost...

Your world may think what it chooses...but really, opinion and gossip count for nothing at all against truth...

I have sat here at my desk, day after day, night after night, a blank sheet of paper before me, unable to lift my pen, trembling and weeping too.

There are some temptations that cannot be resisted, some lessons we never learn.

I was frightened of myself, I seemed to have no control over my thoughts and feelings, it was like a sort of madness...

I would act, pretend, and the pretense would become real.

I felt dead and sick inside.

Every reader re-creates a novel - in their own imagination, anyway. It's only entirely the writer's when nobody else has read it.

Ghost stories ... tell us about things that lie hidden within all of us, and which lurk outside all around us.

I collect Victorian automata and coming across them in the dark does give you a little shudder.

The New Testament is about loving other people as you love yourself. That means caring for them and looking after them and being kind to them.

For I see that then I was still all in a state of innocence, but that innocence, once lost, is lost forever.

I'm not one of those people who hates Amazon because they're big. Why pay a third more for the same thing?

Yorkshire is so much part of me.

There were some things I could never begin to know about.

Without turning prison life into something more meaningful, prisoners are more likely to reoffend.

I don't really do jolly. I don't know why, I just don't.

Once you finish a book, you let it go out into the world to seek its fortune.

We make our own destiny.

Kindness is a sort of love without being love.

Films always make everyone else rich save the author.