“When I write something that would have made me laugh as a 10-year-old, or would have scared me or would have excited me, I know I'm onto something.” KnowsWritingYearsMadeLaughingScaredExcited Author:Jonathan Stroud
“When I was young, I kept a diary for about 10 years and I had to write in it every day. Even on days when nothing seemed to happen, I made myself think of something to put in it.” ThinkingWritingYearsMadeHappensYoungDiaries Author:Jonathan Stroud
“That did it. I'd gone through a lot in the past few days. Everyone I met seemed to want a piece of me: djinn, magicians, humans...it made no difference.I'd been summoned, manhandled, shot at, captured, constricted, bossed about and generally taken for granted. And now, to cap it all, this bloke is joining in too, when all I'd been doing was quietly trying to kill him.” WantTryingHumansMadePastDifferencesGoneTakenPiecesMetsShotsGrantedMagicianCapsCapturedJoiningTaken For GrantedBlokesJoining In Author:Jonathan Stroud
“We communicated with pithy, rather monosyllabic thoughts: viz. Run, Jump, Where? Left, Up, Duck, ect. (This latter was an observation I made on the edge of a lake. Nathaniel unfortunately took it as a command, which resulted in our temporary immersion.) We didn't ever quite say Ug, but it was a close-run thing.” MadeRunningLeftEdgesCommandObservationLakesLatterTemporaryDucksImmersionPithy Author:Jonathan Stroud
