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We wrapped our dreams in words and patterned the words so that they would live forever, unforgettable.

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Of course you don't believe in fairies. You're fifteen. You think I believed in fairies at fifteen? Took me until I was at least a hundred and forty. ...more

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On the whole, stories don't write themselves.

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Writing's a lot like cooking. Sometimes the cake won't rise, no matter what you do, and every now and again the cake tastes better than you ever could...more

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We knew that it would soon be over, and so we put it all into a poem, to tell the universe who we were, and why we were here, and what we said and did...more

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Never use five words if you can get away with one, eh? I've known dead men talk more than you do.

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Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that.

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It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with these

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When I was a boy, Ray Bradbury picked stories from his books of short stories he thought younger readers might like and published them as R Is for Roc...more

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The marquis de Carabas was not a good man, and he knew himself well enough to be perfectly certain that he was not a brave man. He had long since deci...more

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I watched him even then as he fell, his face undefeated, his eyes still proud

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She tasted the day he lost his first job. She tasted the morning he had awakened, still drunk, in his car, in the middle of a cornfield, and, terrifie...more

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The irritating question they ask us -- us being writers -- is: "Where do you get your ideas?"

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People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and backache and notes and ...more

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The irritating question they ask us -- us being writers -- is: "Where do you get your i