“A word only writes Its night and ridesIts dream.”

“When I'm writing I don't dream much; it's like the dreaming gets used in the writing.”

“Writing 1000 words is only daunting if you haven't written them. When you're done, it's pie.”

“A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.”

“So Mo began filling the silence with words. He lured them out of the pages as if they had only been waiting for his voice, words long and short, words sharp and soft, cooing, purring words. They danced through the room, painting stained glass pictures, tickling the skin. Even when Meggie nodded off she could still hear them, although Mo had closed the book long ago. Words that explained the world to her, its dark side and its light side, words that built a wall to keep out bad dreams. And not a single bad dream came over that wall for the rest of the night.”

“A culture is only as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamed by artists.”