People - me included - want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.

I'm a fantasy writer. I don't do SF. This is important to me. If you're not clear on what genre you're in, everything gets muddled, and it's hard to know which rules you're breaking.

A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I've just gotten in the habit of forgiving.

The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.

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.

As a writer I'm more drawn to villains who are just slightly mad.