The problem with growing up is that once you're grown up, the people who aren't grown up aren't fun anymore.

It's very important, at least to me as a writer, that there be some rules on the table when I'm writing. Rules come from genres. You're writing in a genre, there are rules, which is great because then you can break the rules. That's when really exciting things happen.

That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.

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

And I'm not as young as I once was. At my age, I don't have time to be bored.

Everybody wanted to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief.

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