The Golden Compass is one of the best fantasy / adventure stories that I have read. This is a book no one should miss.

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.

This is for writers yet to be published who think the uphill climb will never end. Keep believing. This is also for published writers grown jaded by the process. Remember how lucky you are.

The muse whispers to you when she chooses, and you can't tell her to come back later, because you quickly learn in this business that she might not come back at all.

If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.

We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are.

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.

We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.

Fear is a fire to temper courage and resolve. Use it so.

We must nurture and love, if life is to have any real meaning. But First we must find a way to survive against the things that prevent us from doing so.

Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.

Phones are distracting. The internet is distracting.The way he looked at you? He wasn't distracted. He was consumed.

People say everybody has a book inside them, so why not make your life a great story?

When you learn to kill animals, you are unconsciously teaching cruelty to other creations.

I guess there's always a price to pay when you cheat fate.

There is one thing God’s love cannot do. It cannot forgive the unrepentant sinner.

Purify our minds that we may be "first pure, then peaceable, " and fortify our souls, that our peaceableness may not lead us into cowardice and despair, when for Thy sake we are persecuted.

I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.

Mick has expressed an interest in coming to the gallery tonight because he's seen me behaving myself lately. He is being much more supportive, which is nice.

Along with people who pretty themselves for the camera, the unattractive and the disaffected have been assigned their beauty.

Before you came into my life, I believed that God had abandoned me. Now I know that He has blessed me beyond measure. -sir Bannor-