If I'm making myself laugh, I figure most of my readers will be amused as well.

That is a trial I must face," Veka said. "No, that is a multiheaded snake thing, Jig snapped.

If I'm making myself laugh, I figure most of my readers will be amused as well.

Like any child raised on tales of magical worlds beyond paintings and mirrors and wardrobes, I had yearned to enter Middle Earth, to reach through.

I've found that there's a pretty wide range of silly. I don't want to do outright parody, because I like keeping my own characters and stories at the core of the books. And to be honest, I'm not smart enough to do the kind of wickedly sharp satire you get from someone like Pratchett.

New rule: every fantasy author who doesn't treat horses like tireless hairy motorcycles automatically gets a Hugo.

The more we narrow the definition of beauty, the more beauty we shut out of our lives.