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“Surprise keeps the reader awake. The only alternative is to continue saying what the reader is expecting. What fun is that?”
Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013. 
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“The spaces between stars are where the work of the universe is done.”
Source : Ivan Doig (2013). “The Sea Runners”, p.68, Simon and Schuster
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“Regardless of how dark and heavy the character is the actor has to approach it with that frame of mind.”
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“Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.”
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“Walt understood all of those things, and even common things about people. For instance: Usually you get your idea of what kind of day it is by looking at the horizon, because the horizon is your eye level. So what Walt did is to eliminate the horizon.”
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“I think that first nights should come near the end of a play's run-as indeed, they often do.”
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“He would have told her - he would have said, it matters not if you are here or there, for I see you before me every moment. I see you in the light of the water, in the swaying of the young trees in the spring wind. I see you in the shadows of the great oaks, I hear your voice in the cry of the owl at night. You are the blood in my veins, and the beating of my heart. You are my first waking thought, and my last sigh before sleeping. You are - you are bone of my bone, and breath of my breath.”
Source : Juliet Marillier (2008). “Daughter of the Forest: A Sevenwaters Novel 1”, p.260, Pan Australia
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“Knowing who you really are and dressing the part -- with an air of amused recklessness -- is life affirming for you and life enhancing for other people.”
Source : Simon Doonan (2009). “Eccentric Glamour: Creating an Insanely More Fabulous You”, p.24, Simon and Schuster
