My parents are going to kill me!" "That seems rather harsh. by Garth Nix

My parents are going to kill me!" "That seems rather harsh.

Garth Nix

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For all my longer works (i.e. the novels) I write chapter outlines so I can have the pleasure of departing from them later on.

chapters pleasure writing

Bee stings are very educational by Garth Nix

Bee stings are very educational

educational bees

I suppose you could call me...Soot," said the thing. "Yes...Soot. I have breathed it, lived in it, and eaten it for so long that it is a fitting name." "Eaten it?" asked Suzy. "Why eat soot?" "Boredom," said Soot.

boredom names long

Unhand my tail!" squealed the Will. by Garth Nix

Unhand my tail!" squealed the Will.

Why, Yrael?” it said, as the last of the dark gave way to silver, and the shining sphere of metal sank slowly to the ground. “Why?” “Life,” said Yrael, who was more Mogget than it ever knew. “Fish and fowl, warm sun and shady trees, the field mice in the wheat, under the cool light of the moon.

light moon dark

So I'll do that, and I'll do my best and if my best isn't good enough, at least I will have done everything I could, everything that is in me. I don't have to try to be someone else, someone I could never be.

good-enough done trying

Your father is angry with me because he thinks I almost got myself killed,' said Sabriel, with a slight grin. 'I don't understand it myself, since I think he should be glad that I didn't.

should father thinking

There is always a choice, even if the alternatives don't appear t... by Garth Nix

There is always a choice, even if the alternatives don't appear to be equal.

equal alternatives choices

I enjoyed the army reserve, and I learned a lot from it, but I also... it helped me work out that I didn't want to live in that kind of closed environment.

work-out army want

There were also very special or dangerous items that had to be fetched in person, or even by large parties of armed librarians.

librarian party special

Double, treble, quadruple bubble, watch the stock market get into... by Garth Nix

Double, treble, quadruple bubble, watch the stock market get into trouble.

bubbles trouble watches

So are you saying that somebody went to all the trouble to make you a crypt a thousand years ago on the off chance that you might turn up one day, walk in, and have a convenient heart attack?

one-day heart years

I think there is a kind of laconic Australian leg-pulling sense of humor that is certainly in some of my stories, or is an element in some of my books, and that's probably a direct result of where I've grown up. But other than that I don't draw particularly on the Australian landscape or the Australian biology and so on. So I don't think there's anything you could point to and say is particularly Australian.

landscape book thinking

No mother, no father, no Sight. by Garth Nix

No mother, no father, no Sight.

mother sight father

A year ago, I turned the final page of The Book of the Dead. I do... by Garth Nix

A year ago, I turned the final page of The Book of the Dead. I don't feel young any more.

finals book years

May I say that I approve of a piece that tries to remake the enti... by Garth Nix

May I say that I approve of a piece that tries to remake the entire puzzle?

pieces may trying

I think I've actually benefited from Australia being a kind of combination of both British and American culture. We kind of got the best of both British and American television and books, science fiction and fantasy, and so on. So I'm familiar with a lot of, for example, American books and television that a British author of my generation might not be.

australia book thinking

More advice. Don't go near the Old One. Do go near the Old One. Don't stay past twelve. Trust the Will. Don't trust the Will. I wish someone would tell me something straightforward for once.

wish advice past

Being published is not a necessary validation or a path everyone wants to take with their work. Writing—and finishing—a novel is a great thing in itself, whether or not the book is published, or becomes widely-read or not.

validation writing book

I have never known what to tell anybody. Except that it is better to do something than nothing, even if the cost is great.

known cost bravery