If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.

Paradoxically, in fantasy for young people I was able to express my own deepest feelings and attitudes more than I had ever done in writing for adults.

Craftsmanship isn't like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it's empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains.

Fantasy, in addition to being great storytelling, moves us at some unique and profound level. It has, I think, the power of mythology, or ancient dreams we have always and forever shared. In it, we find our real world and our real selves.

Count the deed, not the thought.

You have a point," said Fronto, "and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.

I loved all the world's mythologies.