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"I've never seen myself as a fantasy writer - ever."
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"When I was in college, I was the editor of the literary magazine and insisted neither the editors nor the writers be specifically identified-only our student numbers appeared on the title page. I love that idea and still do."
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"Most men, no matter how well or badly dressed, carry overstuffed, beat up wallets that should have been replaced years ago. Why is that? Every time I see a guy take out a wallet anywhere, it looks like a piece of old melted chocolate cake-with strings."
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"In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic."
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"People are always waiting to be discovered."
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"The Wilmington, Delaware, television station that bills itself as The Family Minded Station is Channel 69."
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"I don't like to have to pan for gold when I read."
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"Why do people always gesture with their hands when they talk on the phone?"
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"There's almost always a point in a book where something happens that triggers the rest of the plot."
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"If I don't feel like writing today or for a few days, I don't. And I don't think about it. It is not an obligation-it is the greatest privilege."
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"Salzburg... is a mountain town with a rushing river running right through the center, everything in the rain various shades of green and brown."
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"Dragons were dangerous in the sky. Of course, they were dangerous on the ground too. Just less dangerous. In the same way that a sword is less dangerous so long as it's pointed at someone else."
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"To a vampire, there is only selfishness."
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"In the dream world, anything is possible. It requires a fertile imagination, and a desire to explore the half-light between the known and the unknown."
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"A telkhine was hunched over a console, but he was so involved with his work, he didn't notice us. He was about five feet tall, with slick black seal fur and stubby little feet. He had the head of a Doberman, but his clawed hands were almost human. He growled and muttered as he tapped on his keyboard. Maybe he was messaging his friends on uglyface.com."
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"Some will say that searching for your dreams is like looking for unicorns in an emerald forest."
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"The goblins have been after me ever since I helped the Coven drive them out of Essex. (They were gobbling up drunk people in club bathrooms, and the Mage was worried about losing regional slang.) I think the goblin who successfully offs me gets to be king."
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"If you want the Cinderella moments then you have to believe in magick."
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"Pippin glanced in some wonder at the face now close beside his own, for the sound of that laugh had been gay and merry. Yet in the wizard's face he saw at first only lines of care and sorrow; though as he looked more intently he perceived that under all there was a great joy: a fountain of mirth enough to set a kingdom laughing, were it to gush forth."
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"What is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons?"
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"They passed a couple of guys making a bronze windup toy. At least that's what it looked like. It was a six-inch-tall centaur-half man, half horse-armed with a miniature bow. One of the campers cranked the centaur's tail, and it whirred to life. It galloped across the table, yelling, "Die, mosquito! Die, mosquito! and shooting everything in sight."
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