The point is not to look back, but to look ahead to what you hope still to do.

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

All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts.

There's this huge number of desperate people.

There is more honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood.

For the deeds of a man, not the words of a prophecy, are what shape his destiny.

Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.