We are the total of our longings.

As many have noted, the peril for authors is that our work space is too easily our play space.

We salvage what we can, what truly matters to us, even at the gates of despair.

Fantasy is, at its best, the purest access to storytelling that we have. It universalizes a tale, it evokes wonder and timeless narrative power, it touches upon inner journeys, it illuminates our collective and individual pasts, throws a focus beam on the present day, and presages the dangers and promises of the future.

She had been a solitary child, and then solitary as a woman, drawn into an orbit of her own that took her away from others, even those who would be her friends.

I have always argued, in a good novel, interesting things happen to interesting people.

Do you know the wish of your heart?" - The Darkest Road