For all my longer works (i.e. the novels) I write chapter outlines so I can have the pleasure of departing from them… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
Being published is not a necessary validation or a path everyone wants to take with their work. Writing—and finishing—a novel is a… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
I think I've actually benefited from Australia being a kind of combination of both British and American culture. We kind of got… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
A year ago, I turned the final page of The Book of the Dead. I don't feel young any more. — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
“The Dog was a different matter. She was new, or so old that any book that told of her was long since… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
Death and what came after death was no great mystery to Sabriel. She just wished it was. — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
“Choosers will be beggars if the begging's not their choosing," said the Dog "What does that mean?" "I have no idea," said the Dog” — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
Time plays tricks between here and home," said Mogget sepulchrally, frightening the life out of the telephone operator. — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
“Mmmmmm, said Ardent [the Royal Dog]. He liked cooked food. Also raw food and semicooked food, and things that might be food and so… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
I enjoyed the army reserve, and I learned a lot from it, but I also... it helped me work out that I didn't want… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
“If I'm not back by nightfall, come and take a very careful look, said Anya. But I don't expect to need rescuing. I'm not… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
“Come, said Tanitha. Come to the Great Hall, and we will lie down with the puppies, and I will tell you a story. One… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
So I'll do that, and I'll do my best and if my best isn't good enough, at least I will have done everything I… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
He was obviously a very arrogant ragamuffin, and younger than she was, to boot. And he was wearing a necromancer's bells! Apart from that,… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
“she still felt she was a librarian and always would be, no matter what else she had become as well. “We” — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
“I don't want to be that kind of sorcerer, said Anya swiftly. Besides, you wouldn't...you wouldn't love me then, would you? We will always… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride. — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
