The line between outside and inside is fuzzier in fantasy. Maybe that's something people are looking for.

It's wonderful to play around with fantasy, because there are an amazing number of as-yet-unbroken rules out there.

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.

I think every fantasy reader secretly believes they know how magic works.

Every year the literary press praises dozens if not hundreds of novels to the skies, asserting explicitly or implicitly that these books will probably not be suffering water damage in the basements of their authors' houses 20 years from now. But historically, anyway, that's not the way the novelistic ecology works.

Read everything. If you haven't read everything, you'll never be able to write anything.

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.