I've always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giants or elves or dwarves, or whatever they are, they're still human, and the human heart is still in conflict with the self.

You kill men for the wrongs they have done, not the wrongs that they may do someday.

The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.

Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.

You always try to do your own thing. One of the things I wanted to do was to write a book that combines some of the best traits of contemporary fantasy with some of the traits of the historical novel.

A true man does what he will, not what he must.

Great wrongs have been done you, but the past is dust. The future may yet be won.