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- What I want to do is travel deep and deeper into the dreamlands, to find that place that I know is waiting for me here.…
- Children are the brightest treasures we bring forth into this world, but too large a percentage of the population continues to treat them as inconveniences…
- The trouble with magic is that there's too much it just can't fix. When things go wrong, glimpsing junkyard faerie and crows that can turn…
- As children, we come into the world with a natural desire to both speak and draw. Society makes sure that we learn language properly, right…
- My characters seem real because they are drawn from the realities of my life. I didn't have to research their pain; I just tapped into…
- Music's always part of my writing. I think all art is interconnected. You can't create or experience one without its influences bleeding into another. In…
- I've always been aware of the otherworld, of spirits that exist in that twilight place that lies in the corner of our eyes, of fairie…
- I think a good writer is a mix of confidence (sure that what they're writing is going to appeal to their readers) and uncertainty (what…
- All my life I've wanted to be the kid who gets to cross over into the magical kingdom.
- Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, when you're gone that…
- People want to know those details. They think it gives them greater insight into a piece of art, but when they approach a painting in…
- There was too much going on here -- too much that strayed from odd all the way over into seriously weird.
- There are no happy endings... There are no endings, happy or otherwise. We all have our own stories which are just part of the one…
- But what the evil people do, that's their responsibility. The burden they have to carry. Sure, when we see 'em starting on causing some hurt,…
- The moon likes secrets," Meran said. "And secret things. She lets mysteries bleed into her shadows and leaves us to ask whether they originated from…
- The thing to remember when you're writing," he said, " is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's whether…
- The best change you can make is to hold up a mirror so that people can look into it and change themselves. That's the only…
- I hate the thought of her being forced into a box that doesn't fit her. Of having her wings cut off, her sight blinded, her…
- The family we choose for ourselves is more important than the one we were born into; that people have to earn our respect and trust,…
- Everything has a spirit and it's all connected. If you think about that, if you live your life by it, then you're less likely to…
- I'm a writer and this is what I do no matter what name we put to it. Year by year, the world is turning into…
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