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.

And thus did an Assistant Pig-Keeper become High King of Prydain.

A taste for adventure is by no means a masculine monopoly.

No matter what has happened, you're not a pig-boy; you're an Assistant Pig Keeper!

If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.

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

Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.