Isobelle Carmody

The best books arise from some ultimate question in the author.

I do see, in some younger writers, elements and things that I have used - and I am very touched and flattered because I am part of a tapestry that is being absorbed by authors.

I don't believe in fairies floating around, and I don't believe in telepathy, but there are things I want to say that just simple real-life stories don't let me say.

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.

What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.

Technology is characterized by constant change, rapid innovation, creative destruction, and revolutionary products.