I've no idea where ideas come from and I hope I never find out, it would spoil the excitement for me if it turned out I just have a funny little wrinkle on the surface of my brain which makes me think about invisible train platforms.
All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends them to or not. They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we live by. They teach it much more effectively than moral precepts and instructions.
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention — invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
I love fantasy. I love horror. I love musicals. Whatever doesn't really happen in life is what I'm interested in. As a way of commenting on everything that does happen in life, because ultimately the only thing I'm really interested in is people.
The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in shock-proof shit-detector.
The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
"Enchantment's in bookstores on Tues?" "No, it's already there. I've already given birth."