"Give me a sword fight any day."

"I love new writing, new blood, modern works by unknown writers."

"I don't know what my limitations are until I reach them. I look for the challenge."

"I've got a vendetta to destroy the Net, to make everyone go to the library. I love the organic thing of pen and paper, ink on canvas. I love going down to the library, the feel and smell of books."

"I think academics are infuriating. For every expert on Shakespeare there is another one to cancel his theory out. It drives you up the wall. I think the greatest form of finding out the truth is through fantasy."

"I think everything I do is my early work. I can't wait to get on to the later stuff."