And once begun, change cannot be reversed.

I'm always writing - its what I like to do. But when I'm not writing, I'm reading.

The people that you work with are, when you get down to it, your very best friends.

Every story starts with an idea, but it is the characters that move this idea forward.

So you should be able to see them clearly in your imagination. We always find it easier to visualize what we fear; it's what keeps us afraid of the dark.

But magic, like everything else, follows certain natural laws. Magic needs energy wherever it can find it. If no other source of energy is available, it will take the life force of the magician who created it. That is why every use of magic weakens the magician.

we are nothing more than the sum of our memories and experiences