Some things can be both real and imaginary at the same time, . . . some lies can be true, . . . broken faith may be restored.

...we do not simply get showered with Hollywood money because we happened to write a little story about wizards one day. It's not winning the lottery. It's a real job, which real people do, and they have the same real problems as other real people.

The great thing about books is that you can end with a question mark.

I have a tendency to pick up my own challenges. The more difficult something it is, the more I want to try it.

I don't listen to music when I'm writing, but I often do when I'm reworking, editing or when I need to relax.

Somehow the anticipation of pain can be even more troubling, more a misery than the pain itself.

I don't tend to do category fiction very well. One of my problems when I was starting off was that publishers were hesitant to handle my books because they were never sure what I was going to do next.