- I give him words. He gives me back something that surprises me.
- They have all of my books in print in China except for my children's books because they said they were too anti-authoritarian and showed disrespect. So I thought, 'Okay, I have to write a children's book that is anti-authoritarian and shows disrespect that the Chinese will publish."
- My favorite character in all of 'Good Omens' is the Federal Express man.
- "To a God Unknown"
- It says here she's wearing gloves but she's not wearing gloves in the picture. I will write and tell the author.
- It's amazing how much fun you can have if you're me.
- Writers cannibalize all of themselves for stories.
- Remember at all times that writing is a confidence trick.
- When I grew up, I wanted to be a werewolf--or a writer. Werewolf was an easy number one.
- I regarded his insistence that I should take sandwiches to the library as an insidious plot to embarrass me.
- If you tell anybody, you had told the entire world ... and Wikipedia, which would get it wrong.
- Stories are transmissible. You can catch them or be infected by them.
- Do whatever you can to get the words down in whatever shape you can.
- I believe we owe it to each other to tell stories.
- We sleep unwisely. It is our right.
- And I sat on the sofa and cried--like an adult.
- I don't really believe in writer's block. I definitely believe in getting stuck.
- Fiction was an escape from the intolerable, a doorway into a world that was unbearably hospitable.
- We save our lives in such unlikely ways.
- Pah! Completely useless, I am.
- It was the sort of thing that would be happier if it got out of my head, where it was slowly driving me mad, and into all of yours.
- And he said the words the dead know, in a voice like wind and water. " ... Nor is God like you imagine."
- God is not what you imagine. Nor is heaven. Nor is hell.
- There's no hell to spite the sinners. There's no heaven for the blessed. And God is not as you imagine.
may 6 2010 ∞
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