Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.

I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published.

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.

That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.

During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories as to how magic worked as there were cultures and religions.

I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.

It took me about 12 years to reach my million-word mark. The challenge now is to continue to challenge myself.