mindset Quotes

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.

It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

I've been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don't need to write a book for adults.

If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.

If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn't in FAO Schwarz.

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.