If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.
You don’t learn about yourself by being alone, you learn about yourself from other people.
I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.
I think every fantasy reader secretly believes they know how magic works.
I feel very conscious of my influences. T.H. White is very important for me.
I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.