There's a special gut-check moment the first time you write a scene in which somebody casts a spell.

I mean, when you're tired of book reviews, you're tired of life.

I recognize that on paper, you can't really tell that I'm a fan or a nerd.

His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling.

I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began.

Maybe there's a sense that technology isn't necessarily the answer to a lot of our problems. Fantasy offers readers a less radically alienated world - a world where desires and feelings that normally are trapped inside your mind are made real in the form of magic.

Being a hero, the man had observed, is largely a matter of knowing one’s cues.