We hold each other's lives in our open hands, not in clenched fists.

There's this huge number of desperate people.

Find what you want. I will find you.

Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.

Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.

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.

After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published.