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

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.

Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun

All agreed that Quickset was the cleverest cat in the world. And, since Quickset had the same opinion, it was surely true.

Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.

I loved all the world's mythologies.

I came to fantasy fairly late. For some ten years, I had been happily writing fiction and non-fiction for adults. But I always loved fantasy, whether for adults or young people; and at that particular point in my life, I wanted to try it, to understand it, as part of the process of learning to be a writer. The results were beyond anything I could have foreseen. As I've said often and elsewhere, it was the most creative and liberating experience of my life.