I'm fond of all my characters so every time one doesn't make the cut I'm a little disappointed although I understand it.

My dreams are the usual incoherent nonsense. Like most writers, at some point in my career I thought, well, I have these great dreams but I always forget them in the morning so I’ll leave a pad on my bedside table so I can write it down, and then you have some incredible dream and you write it down and the next morning you wake up and you’ve written ‘purple socks’.

There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good kings.

A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.

Unfortunately in television, for whatever reason, fantasy became thought of as a kids' genre.

Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.

A woman's life is nine parts mess to one part magic, you'll learn that soon enough...and the parts that look like magic turn out to be the messiest of all.