How often have I met and disliked writers whose books I love; and conversely, hated the books and then wound up liking the writer? Too often.

Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else.

Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings.

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.

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

I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.

He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.