I like to have powerful enemies. Makes me feel important.

Don't wish for bricks when you can build from stone.

I had spared the stag's life. The power of that life belonged to me as surely as it belonged to the man who had taken it.

Just because you escape one trap, doesn't mean you will escape the next.

Na razrusha'ya. I am not ruined. E'ya razrushost. I am ruination.

My stories usually begin with the characters and some elements of how power (personal, political, magical) functions in the world. The rest develops as I write, and research helps a great deal with that. If you're going to write about an agrarian economy, research agrarian economies. If your main character is starving, then you should know what it means for a malnourished body to break down.

When people say impossible, they usually mean improbable.