The most important thing for any aspiring writer, is to read! And not just the sort of thing you're trying to write, be that fantasy, SF, comic books, whatever. You need to read everything.

The gods made the earth for all men t' share. Only when the kings come with their crowns and steel swords, they claimed it was all theirs. "My trees," they said, "you can't eat them apples. My stream, you can't fish here. My wood, you're not t' hunt. My earth, my water, my castle, my daughter, keep your hands away or I'll chop 'em off, but maybe if you kneel t' me I'll let you have a sniff." You call us thieves, but at least a thief has t' be brave and clever and quick. A kneeler only has t' kneel.

That night the wind was howling almost like a wolf and there were some real wolves off to the west giving it lessons.

And what lesson can we draw from Volantene history? If you want to conquer the world, you best have dragons.

When you have known the kiss of a flaying knife, a laugh loses all its power to hurt you.

Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by night.

I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I've created, especially the viewpoint characters.