Ideas are the cheapest part of the writing. They are free. The hard part is what you do with ideas you've gathered.

Childrens books change lives. Stories pour into the hearts of children and help make them what they become.

Stories," he'd said, his voice low and almost husky, "we are made up of stories. And even the one's that seem the most like lies can be our deepest hidden truths.

Well,' the Goddess said, 'your heart didn't heal straight the last time it broke. So we'll break it again and reset it so it heals straight this time.

Folklore is the perfect second skin. From under its hide, we can see all the shimmering, shadowy uncertainties of the world.

The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaking to the human condition, the longings we all have for the Faerie Other.

Write, write, and write some more. Think of writing as a muscle that needs lots of exercise.