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" If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time. "

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" Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. "

" Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates. "

" And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss. "

" We do stigmatise teens a lot and see them as scary and alien. "

" I'm an emotional person. "

" The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous. "

" My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo, who had a hot temper and a burning ambition to be a writer. "

" The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words. "

" I've been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don't need to write a book for adults. "

" I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks. "

" I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers. "

" With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun. "

" I always felt an outsider. "

" The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution. "

" There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing. "

" I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind. "

" I think you're working and learning until you die. "

" I don't need to publish to make a living. "

" It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. "

" Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most. "

" I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write. "

" Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself. "

" We're a phenomenally snobby society, and it's such a rich seam. The middle class is so funny: it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny. "

" I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal. "

" What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does. "

" I just hate meetings. Though it's true that once you've made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don't want to seize every opportunity to do so. "

" I'm not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world. "

" I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity. "