“He would go somewhere no one knew him, and he would sit in a library all day and read books and listen to people breathing.”
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“I already killed you once today, what does it take to teach some people?”
“I’m an author. We don’t want to lead. We don’t need to follow. We stay home and make stuff up and write it down and send it out into the world, and get inside people’s heads. Perhaps we change the world and perhaps we don’t. We never know. We just make stuff up.”
“They were not my friends, after all. They were just the people I went to school with.”
“I think there should be an Occupy Gallifrey. Because 0.000001% of the people have 99.99999% of the Time.”
“There aren't any good guys, and there aren't any bad guys. There's just us. People. Doing our best to get by.”
“There are so many places we have not yet seen. So many people still to meet.”
“Read the books you love, tell people about authors you like, and don’t worry about it.”
“I've never known anyone who was what he or she seemed; or at least, was only what he or she seemed. People carry worlds within them.”
“I've known ambitious people with no aptitude for the thing they did. Most of whom, rather terrifyingly, tended to succeed.”
“My theory on genre is that while there are people out there who believe that genre tells people what to read, actually I believe that genre exists as a marketing tool to tell you what to avoid.”
“In the case of 'Ocean at the End of the Lane,' it's a book about helplessness. It's a book about family, it's a book about being 7 in a world of people who are bigger than you, and more dangerous, and stepping into territory that you don't entirely understand.”
“The only people I ever get irritated with are the ones who announce, using my Twitter handle, that they are no longer following me and why.”
“I don't think you should ever insult people unintentionally: if you're doing it, you ought to mean it.”
“Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.”
“Shadow had heard too many people telling each other not to repress their feelings, to let their emotions out, let the pain go. Shadow thought there was a lot to be said for bottling up emotions. If you did it long enough and deep enough, he suspected, pretty soon you wouldn't feel anything at all.”
“Monsters come in all shapes and sizes, Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them are things that look like things people used to be scared of a long time ago. Sometimes monsters are things people should be scared of, but they aren't.”
“It goes without saying that all of the people, living, dead, and otherwise, in this story are fictional or used in a fictional context. Only the gods are real.”
“Stories are made up by people who make them up. If they work, they get retold. There's the magic of it.”
“He stared up at the stars, and it seemed to him then that they were dancers, stately and graceful, performing a dance almost infinite in its complexity. He imagined he could see the very faces of the stars; pale, they were, and smiling gently, as if they had spent so much time above the world, watching the scrambling and the joy and the pain of the people below them, that they could not help being amused every time another little human believed itself the center of its world, as each of us does.”