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" I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws. "

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" I've known ambitious people with no aptitude for the thing they did. Most of whom, rather terrifyingly, tended to succeed. "

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" So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech. "

" I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I've written. "

" I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began 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. "

" It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor. "

" I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe. "

" I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look for it. "

" A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and fantasy or science fiction that imbued you with a sense of wonder, and mainstream journalism that gave you clear and concise information in a way that you wanted it. "

" 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. "

" This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof. "

" And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it. "

" Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal. "

" When I was young, I was reading anything and anything I could lay my hands on. I was a veracious-to-the-point-of-insane reader. "

" I don't think there is such a thing as a bad book for children. "

" I don't think I'm mainstream. I think what I am is lots and lots of different cults. And when you get lots and lots of small groups who like you a lot, they add up to a big group without ever actually becoming mainstream. "

" 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. "

" Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't. "

" Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter. "

" 'Doctor Who' was the first mythology that I learned, before ever I ran into Greek or Roman or Egyptian mythologies. "

" I had started to feel that somewhere in the second half of the 20th century, the idea of page-turning as a good thing had been lost. You were getting books that were the equivalent of absolutely beautifully prepared dishes of food that didn't taste like anything much. "

" I suspect there are two kinds of novelists. Those who have a point of view and have something to say and then write a novel in order to say that thing, and those of us who write the book in order to find out what we think about that thing. "

" When I was a kid, we actually lived in a house that had been divided in two at one point, which meant that one room in our house opened up onto a brick wall. And I was convinced all I had to do was just open it the right way and it wouldn't be a brick wall. So I'd sidle over to the door and I'd pull it open. "

" I started blogging a decade ago because I like blogging. Writing's a kind of lonely thing to do, and I liked the idea of demystifying the process because I loved it as a kid and teenager and as somebody who wanted desperately to write. "

" A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. That includes health information. And mental health information. It's a community space. It's a place of safety, a haven from the world. "

" Anything that keeps you happy and writing is part of my writing ritual: I like music, so I tend to have it playing in the background. But if I'm interested, I can write in an airport waiting areas. "

" The joy of doing 'Sandman' was doing a comic and telling people, 'No, it has an end,' at a time when nobody thought you could actually get to the end and stop doing a comic that people were still buying just because you'd finished. "

" I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection. "

" Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did. "