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.

Genuinely social people never ceased to amaze him. Their brains seemed to generate an inexhaustible fund of things to say, naturally, with no effort, out of nothing at all.

Don't take anyone's writing advice too seriously.

Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.

About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell... I defy anybody to read the first page and not keep going to the last.

You didn’t get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do.

You're saying the gods don't have free will." "The power to make mistakes," Penny said. "Only we have that. Mortals