36 quotes found
“Its lovely when writers I like like each other.”
“One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and look at things from angles you'd never have thought about before.”
“There's a way that money is freedom, but it isn't money, it's that money stands for having a choice.”
“This school is enough to make anyone a communist.”
“The thing with dying, well, with death really, is that there's a difference between being someone who knows they can really die at any time and someone who doesn't.”
“I found myself being helped down to the car. That sort of help is actually a hindrance. If you ever see someone with a walking stick, that stick, and their arm, are actually a leg.”
“My mother was a pathetic patchwork witch who had used magic so much to meddle in her own life that she had no integrity left and was nothing but a coil of hatreds consuming themselves in futility. ...”
“Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization. Libraries really are wonderful. Theyre better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, bu...”
“The worst of anything she could do to me would be to make me like her. That's why I ran away.”
“Trees are what paper was, and wants to be.”
“They could take the money from building enough nukes to kill all the Russians in the world and give it to libraries. What good does an independent nuclear deterrent do Britain, compared to the good...”
“Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but libraries just sit there lending you books quietly out of the goodness ...”
“Magic isn’t inherently evil. But it does seem to be terribly bad for people.”
“It’s lovely when writers I like like each other.”
“You couldn’t get worse food, or food more detached from nature, if you tried. If you have an apple, you’re connected to an apple tree. If you have a dish of set custard and half a glace cherry you’...”
“Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization.”
