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When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it.

Go nowhere on a horse that fades, for your dreams will betray you.

Im a devotee of Dracula, which was a pathfinder in horror and vampire fiction.

I do not think I was afraid. There must be substance to breed fear, and I was hollow.

Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?

When the night burned its cloak in the sunrise ...

Azhrarn the Beautiful," said Chuz lovingly, "it is your beautiful madness I have come to see.

Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote.

The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.

He sat by her, watching every gesture she made, as if he would paint her portrait afterward.

Is any world quite sensible?

You should visit before you pass judgement on a place.

I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.

I tend not to analyse my work, though I'm frequently intrigued when other people take time to do so.

Mirrors taught: Perhaps there were always at least two sorts of reality, what you credited, and what was true.

Live and let love.
Love and let go.
Go live.

Would you like an interview for the drama, too?"
"I can't act."
"Everyone can act. We spend our lives acting.

When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!

Louisa beheld the grounds and house with the calm pleasure of one who has seen nothing, been nowhere, expects everything, and has little imagination.

I hardly ever work from a synopsis
I find they act like chains.

No one more cynical than an idealist.

Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.

If you run away from trouble, it always follows.'
Rather my impression, too. Though that never stopped me trying.

It had occurred to me I was not courageous, had never been brave, only arrogant or unthinking.

The guilty are always the most prone to establish complementary guilt, and the most unforgiving thereafter.

I felt angry and silly in that feather-itch dress. I felt alone. But one always is, I suppose.

Don't ever," he said, "be afraid of me."
But I was. He'd driven a silver nail through my heart.

I will draw you back to me. You shall see. By a chain of stars.

And their days make no story for they were good and joyful and without event

I'm not very good at being alive. Sometimes I despair of ever mastering it, getting it right. When I'm old, perhaps.

Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these.

Dawn rose from the desert and turned the river to wine

Living With The Dead Molly Brown I

It was the forest's fault. Those two handsome woodcutters. An evil place, the forest, everyone knew it, full of temptations and imps ...

Madness. I did not get myself born to die. I have better things to do.

Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.

Tales of heroes end in bliss.

No man to lord, no child to hold.

Danger and anger are everywhere. Love is the rarity, the gem buried in the core of the mine, the outpost of God.

I began to feel lighthearted. Don't ever do that; it tempts some dark and evil force abroad in the universe.

We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.

I loved him, just for a minute. I loved him and I grieved for him and my pity was part of the beauty, before the shame began.

Go nowhere on a horse that fades.

Ecstasy and vulnerability belonged in the same dish. The fear the cup would be snatched away was what gave the wine its savor.

Azhrarn, Lord of Terrors, terrified.

I will pay you in trouble and terror.

It was so useful to lie with the truth.

I haven't changed. Something's happened to me, that's all.

I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don't care if it's stereotyped.

Condemned and executioner are not coupled in a primitive rite.

Yes, he was very dangerous, perhaps more dangerous than Vazkor, for his weapon was honesty.

I never know where I am going, though. That is part of what makes it so wonderful. And after all, who does?

She was what an aristocrat should be, porcelain and silk, unreachable, gracious, untainted by the dust of all this common death.

(Oscar) Wilde is surely one of the most erotic writers who ever lived.

It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.

There's a saying in High Egypt: The sky won't listen, so complain all you like.

The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar.

Oh, love. Love is best of all. There is no such total element, not even pain. Who has ever loved, knows this. I need not say more.

Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death; one more death of the heart.

I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.

Hatred and jealousy must find a tongue; only the creatures which never feel those things have no need to talk.

The Vazdru do not weep."
"Who weeps? Not I."
"Every word spoken was a tear.

The kind of teacher who never learned anything herself. Or taught anything, except sarcasm or fear.

I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

Tanaquil gently toed the peeve. "I'll unfasten the window. Jump out to the lower roof and run."
"Stay and bite," said the peeve.

Archetypes are universal, and, in subtle or extravagant ways, interchangeable.

I've been criticised for writing in too complex a manner for younger people.

It was not apathy. It was an intelligent disinterest in those things that could have no bearing on one's existence.

I came up with a parallel Venice called Venus. set in a parallel Venice about 1701.

Flat or round, there has always been hate in the world.

The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.

He may harp in the Dark One's Hall and take no harm, who is a true harper.

Whatever the hell I am, I am Me.

She braced herself for the pain of the perfect horn breaking her heart.

Roilant caught himself, with exasperation, slipping into vacuous philosophy, a sure sign his opinion of life was at its very lowest.

Men are not the causers of history. History itself, by a pressure of events, causes men to resort to particular actions.

What is any of this to us? Time is endless and ours. Love and Death are only the games we play in it.

No one is ever ordinary.

Pirates have always fascinated me.

It gets cold in the desert at night, particularly up in the mountains; the stars hammer on the rock and strike frost.

The humble were the elect of God. Did not the priests teach so, in their gemmed, kingly robes, from their towering pulpits?

The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty.

It's lovely. I hate it.

Pale beauty stands aghast," he said, "at the vulgar ugliness of men.

We all have our dreams. May we find them, and God have mercy on us when we do.

The dictate of the light says: Know yourself and what you are. The dark replies, By all means, but then become afraid.