I think I've got Fear down, but how do I take it all the way up to Terror?

I do not permit affection or lack thereof to influence my actions. There is good, and there is evil. The good must be protected, the evil eradicated. I have shown you the triumph of evil as a caution.

The Lord of Dreams learns that one must change or die, and makes his decision

Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.

All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up convincingly and interestingly and new.

I love making things. I love building things. I love the idea that something's in the world that wasn't there before.

A novel seemed the easiest way to get what I had had in my head into the inside of other people's heads. Books are good that way.