Ursula Vernon

“And now you will ask me about the musicians that played for the jackalope wives. Well, if you can find a place…

— Ursula Vernon

“I love boats. Boats are great. You can get all kinds of places and meet all kinds of interesting people, and you…

— Ursula Vernon

If I do manage to come up with a scheme [to naming], however, I stick to it, which is why my cats…

— Ursula Vernon

“Maps? There are no maps. I go by dark ways, unclean ways. If such a map existed, it would be beyond price.…

— Ursula Vernon

“She was a good witch and a decent person, but decent people aren’t always easy to live with.”

— Ursula Vernon

It's a reality of art that the fewer lines you get, the harder it is. Cartooning is actually harder than realism. You…

— Ursula Vernon

I don't know why people don't paint more warthogs. Warthogs are fantastic. They have the most marvelous faces, like cracked mud with…

— Ursula Vernon

Air and Water can just swirl around being swirly, and Fire is just kind of aggressive, but my gut feeling is that…

— Ursula Vernon

“So we have this eyesore on the property. No, it’s not the beagle. I can understand why you’d think that, though.”

— Ursula Vernon

“The last time Wendell's mother had caught them playing cowboys and Indians, she'd read them a twenty-minute lecture on the history of…

— Ursula Vernon

“The world was hard and fierce, but it also contained tomato sandwiches, and if that didn’t make it a world worth living…

— Ursula Vernon

Once upon a time there was a girl who discovered that if she played a certain tune on a jade flute, she…

— Ursula Vernon

I really wish there had been a way to phrase this as 'A thunder of worms.' Because I like that phrase. That's…

— Ursula Vernon

The minute I sit down and think 'Okay, this must be KID SAFE!' my Muse develops Tourrette's and goes to lunch with…

— Ursula Vernon

“I suppose we should contact the local authorities?” said Wilbur. “I’m a princess,” said Harriet. “We’re in the hamster kingdom. I kinda…

— Ursula Vernon

Once upon a time, there was a little creature that was rather small and rather wicked and it lived all alone in…

— Ursula Vernon

“People ought to be a lot quicker to listen to each other and a little slower to listen to something that calls…

— Ursula Vernon

“Trolls have a longstanding animosity for goats--"Who's that trip-tapping across my bridge!?"--and this led me to think that perhaps trolls are related…

— Ursula Vernon

Okay. Morality in a nutshell. Don't hurt people if you can avoid it. Don't steal stuff unless you're starving or it's really,…

— Ursula Vernon

“A stupid mule is still smarter than a good horse or a bad man.”

— Ursula Vernon

I am automatically suspicious of things that wave their symbolism around and do little dances and bludgeon you over the head so…

— Ursula Vernon

“Sweet mother Mary, boy, think about what you’re doing! Be cruel or be kind, but don’t be both, because now you’ve made…

— Ursula Vernon

If I may bend your ear for a moment, I like Terry Pratchett. I like footnotes. I like footnotes even when they…

— Ursula Vernon

“...and that's how Snuggles the hamster learned that yes, things COULD always get worse. ”

— Ursula Vernon

“Never underestimate the power of a good cup of coffee.”

— Ursula Vernon