Sometimes, son," my father said, prying my fingers free, "you have to help the heroes along.

What did you put in the fire?" Kaladin said. "To make that special smoke?" "Nothing. It was just and ordinary fire." "But, I saw-" "What you saw belongs to you. A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind." "What does the story mean, then?" "It means what you want it to mean," Hoid said. "The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think , but to give you questions to think upon. Too often, we forget that.

What was that?" Galladon demanded. "I think I just destroyed the biology section" Raoden replied with wonder.

When I do research, I cast my net very widely and then snatch what feels right out of that. Occasionally I'll read a specific book for a specific book, but usually I'm trying to increase my general understanding.

People with passion are people who will destroy - for a man's passion is not true until he proves how much he's willing to sacrifice for it.

There are no endings, and never will be endings, to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was an ending.

Fantasy has had some problems with being too repetitive, in my opinion. I try to read what other people are doing - and say, 'How can I add to this rather than just recycle it? How can I stand on Tolkien's shoulders rather than stand tied to his kneecaps?