Storytelling is our oldest form of remembering the promises we have made to one another and to our various gods, and the promises given in return; it is a way of recording our human emotions and desires and taboos. – Jane Yolen
For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my Mom said I didnt have time for university. – Vanessa Mae
The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current. – Willa Sibert Cather
I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it. Then Id go home at night and turn what I learned into science fiction stories. – Kevin J. Anderson