I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well.

There is a power in names. Olakunde told us of ashe-the power which runs through all things, subtle and flexible, which find its most potent expression in human utterance; so that it is a terrible thing to call down imprecations on an enemy, or to wish for anything but good, for what is said out loud is forged into truth.

You made her apologize for sickness. For her courage. You made her feel sorry for dying.

I was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels.

Its a very 18th-century thing to have a book broken into several volumes.

Occasionally people ask me how it is I write different types of things, and my answer to that is it's very natural. You get bored writing one kind of thing all the time.

I can't tell you how irritating it is to be an atheist in a haunted house.