It's not a job but a condition.(Alan Garner on writing)

She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.

I loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.

Im not supposed to be within two hundred feet of a school or a Chuck E. Cheese.

I wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.

It's where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this. Plus it's not a purse, it's called a satchel. Indiana Jones wears one.

I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.

Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.

I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.

Hitting the gym to release stress is not nearly as effective as hitting the people that cause the stress to begin with.

Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.

Everyone is watching you. If you don’t believe it, just pretend to fail and you’ll see many mockers. For this reason, work hard as if you are doing everyone’s business!

It's very difficult to design something for someone if you have no empathy.

We must fight to carry out his radical and bold vision for America.

How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!

I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a girl: I want to rule the world.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

You run into stereotypes so that the stereotype filters who you are and what you do, and having to deal with that was the most frustrating thing for me.

Most of the birds of the Old World can be found here, as Oman is on a strategic route for migrating birds

Go away, you give philosophy nothing to catch hold of.

In black Africa, one does not strike, one does not express, one walks right.