It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end. Votes: 5
Other people's stories may become part of your own, the foundation of it, the ground it goes on. Votes: 1
Ignorant power is a bane! Votes: 0
O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, now isn't then. Votes: 0
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it. Votes: 0
My great-aunt. . . . said nobody under 18 had any business reading Dickens. . . . She was right. Votes: 0
Owning is owing, having is hoarding. Votes: 0
At the pit's bottom is no anger. Votes: 0
A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt. Votes: 0
I know perfectly well he's a god, too. But what I think is he'll be much godlier after he's dead. Votes: 0
...you play the instrument you have. Votes: 0
The king was pregnant. Votes: 0
Age and illness made one a dualist Votes: 0
Alone, no one wins freedom. Votes: 0
Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art. Votes: 0
As a writer, you are free. Votes: 0
Do you know how to read?" "No. It is one of the black arts." He nodded. "But a useful one," he said. Votes: 0
Dreams take short cuts. Votes: 0
First sentences are doors to worlds. Votes: 0
Go to bed; tired is stupid. Votes: 0
Greed puts out the sun. Votes: 0
Hope is a slow business. Votes: 0
I write with all my heart Votes: 0
In war everybody is a prisoner. Votes: 0
Infinite are the arguments of mages, Votes: 0
Is it the gods who set this fire in our hearts, or do we each make our fierce desire into a god? Votes: 0
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. Votes: 0
It's not a weapon or a woman can make a man, or magery either, or any power, anything but himself. Votes: 0
Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed. Votes: 0
Manipulated, one manipulates others. Votes: 0
Most civilisations, perhaps, look shinier in general terms and from several light-years away. Votes: 0
Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it. Votes: 0
Progress means nothing to presence. Votes: 0
Success is somebody else's failure. Votes: 0
The reader can't take much for granted in a fiction where the scenery can eat the characters. Votes: 0
To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good. Votes: 0
To hear, one must be silent. Votes: 0
Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger. Votes: 0
What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up Votes: 0
What is more arrogant than honesty? Votes: 0
When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep. Votes: 0
When people say, Did you always want to be a writer?, I have to say no! I always WAS a writer. Votes: 0
Writing makes no noise, except groans, and it can be done everywhere, and it is done alone. Votes: 0