Quotes by : Patricia A. McKillip

Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed it cannot be ignored.

I don't teach lies, but I do not teach all I know is true.

A net of words, he said at last, is more powerful than a net of rope.

The idea of fairyland fascinates me because it's one of those things, like mermaids and dragons, that....

But you must stop playing among his ghosts -- it's stupid and dangerous and completely pointless. He's....

Those who fear the imagination condemn it: something childish, they say, something monsterish, misbegotten.....

The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.

It's so hard to think in winter. The world seems confined in the space of your heart you can't see beyond....

Be patient, as you must always be patient with new pale seeds buried in the dark ground. When you are....

Shall I add a man to my collection?