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

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.

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

For Wayfarers still journeying, for Wanderers at rest.

The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time.

How easy it is to think well of ourselves. Until the moment is upon us, we can never be certain.

At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope