Science is just magic with better PR.

It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.

Each book needs a good beginning and a good ending. People get pissed off when you don't close things off properly at the end.

Dawn was coming. The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts.

The framed tale is, in my opinion, one of the most natural ways to tell a story. If you think of it, the conceit of the frame-less story is actually the odd way of doing things. Without the frame, how do you know the context for a story?

After two years of sending out query letters and failing to get an agent, I made friends with an author, who was nice enough to introduce me to his agent. That got my foot in the door.

I take back everything I ever said about that boy being clever." He turned around to face the bar while leveling an accusatory finger at the closed door. "That," he said firmly to the room in general, "is what comes of working with iron every day.