Book tours are excellent things, and one is lucky to get to go on one, but they have a way of leeching away one's will to live.

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.

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

The real problem with being around James was that he was always the hero. And what did that make you? Either the sidekick or the villain.

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

Nothing is wrong with you. You're not different. Everybody feels as bad as you do: this is just what writing a novel feels like. To write a novel is to come in contact with raw, primal feelings, hopes and longings and psychic wounds, and try to make a big public word-sculpture out of them, and that is a crazy hard thing to do.

I love playing with the conventions of fantasy, and breaking rules, and crossing lines.