Raoden looked up at his friend. "We're not dead, Galladon, and we're not damned. We're just unfinished.

It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of their books

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

I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal, important scenes, and I build them in my head and I don't write them yet, but I build towards them.

Bitterness is repaid more often than kindness.

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

I never wanted to be feared. If I regret one thing, it is the fear I have caused. Fear is the tool of tyrants. Unfortunately, when the fate of the world is in question, you use whatever tools are available.