You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?
From Jeanette Winterson
The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.
Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.
With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy.
Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn't matter to me.
When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.
Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.
What's invisible to us is also crucial for our own well-being.
We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.
To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.
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