A legend can just as well be founded in the future as in the past." "It's called a 'prophecy,'" Urruah said. "You may have heard of the concept.

There is a rule for fantasy writers: The more truth you mix in with a lie, the stronger it gets.

My first generation of young readers now have not only children, but some of them have grandchildren to whom they're introducing their old passion.

You should know how terrible a power belief is, especially in the wrong hands -- and how do you tell which hands are wrong? Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow.

The city breathing, burning, living the life thy had preserved. Ten million lives and more. If something should happen to all that life - how terrible! Nita gulped for control as she remembered Fred's word of just this morning, an eternity ago. And this was what being a wizard was about. Keeping terrible things from happening, even when it hurts. Not just power, or control of what ordinary people couldn't control, or delight in being able to make strange things happen. Those were the side effects - not the reason, the purpose.

It’d be a poor kind of world where there was just one explanation for things. ---Rhiow

What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.