“I learned that books are never finished, that it is possible for stories to go on writing themselves without an author.”

“Our life is a blank book and we are the authors......... Write and shape your story as much as the mind can imagine it”

“Authors go on writing books, and so we go on reading them. It is a sad state of affairs.”

“If there's one thing I've learned, it's that God is a very creative author, and He writes a different story for every person. No two lives or stories alike.”

“I’m working on another Lyra book right now – it’s called The Book of Dust.“It’s going very well and it will be finished when I write the words ‘The End’.”

“I don't start a novel until I have lived with the story for awhile to the point of actually writing an outline and after a number of books I've learned that the more time I spend on the outline the easier the book is to write. And if I cheat on the outline I get in trouble with the book.”