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"People ask me what my predictions are for publishing and how digital is changing things and I tell them my only real prediction is that is it's all changing. Amazon, Google and all of those things probably aren't the enemy. The enemy right now is simply refusing to understand that the world is changing."
"Sometimes I suspect that we build our traps ourselves, then we back into them, pretending amazement the while."
"It's not the fish you catch, it's the peace of mind you take home at the end of the day."
"Lucifer protests he was never to blame for inducing anyone to sin, and that he’s never had an interest in owning souls: 'They die, and they come here – having transgressed against what they believed to be right – and expect us to fulfill their desire for pain and retribution. I don’t make them come here… I need no souls. And how can anyone own a soul? No, they belong to themselves. They just hate to have to face up to it."
"There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong."
"You see, the outcome of the battle is unimportant. What matters is the chaos, and the slaughter."
"Be proud of your mistakes. Well, proud may not be exactly the right word, but respect them, treasure them, be kind to them, learn from them. And, more than that, and more important than that, make them. Make mistakes. Make great mistakes, make wonderful mistakes, make glorious mistakes. Better to make a hundred mistakes than to stare at a blank piece of paper too scared to do anything wrong."
"The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world."
"People talk about escapism as if it's a bad thing... Once you've escaped, once you come back, the world is not the same as when you left it. You come back to it with skills, weapons, knowledge you didn't have before. Then you are better equipped to deal with your current reality."
"Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism."
"My heart… It feels like my chest can barely contain it. Like it’s trying to escape because it doesn’t belong to me any more. It belongs to you."
"You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear."
"Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself."
"One of the great things about humor is, you can slip things past people with humor, you can use it as a sweetener. So you can actually tell them things, give them messages, get terribly, terribly serious and terribly, terribly dark, and because there are jokes in there, they'll go along with you, and they'll travel a lot further along with you than they would otherwise."
"Too much talking these days. Talk talk talk. This country would get along much better if people learned how to suffer in silence."
"If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future."
"Put one word after another. Find the right word, put it down."
"In Hollywood, lying is something that people do like breathing."
"We live in a world in which the only utopian visions arrive in commercial breaks: magical visions of an impossibly hospitable world, peopled by bright-eyed attractive men, women, children... Where nobody dies... In my worlds people died. And I thought that was honest. I thought I was being honest."
"People pursue things. As soon as they have them they run away from them."