“It is in doing things and not reading about them that results come about.”
“The thing about fairy tales was having faith in the things that don't come true, and appreciating them when they do.”
“But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.”
“Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.”
“At least in a book I am away from my body for a while. But I want to do things, not just read about them. I want my life.”
“I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the characters I write from people who read about them. Readers expand them in ways I don't think of and take them to places I can't go.”