A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection

I'm not a speed writer. I write slowly and revise obsessively. The end result tends to be good. That's where my strength is.

I'm a firm supporter of the word polyamory. But that one is close to my heart.

My granda always told me that fall's the time to root up something you don't want coming back to trouble you.' Kote mimicked the quaver of an old man's voice. 'Things are too full of life in the spring months. In the summer, they're too strong and won't let go. Autumn...' He looked around at the changing leaves on the trees. 'Autumn's the time. In autumn everything is tired and ready to die.

I believe it, Chronicler found himself thinking. Before it was just a story, but now I can believe it. This is the face of a man who has killed an angel.

It's one thing to not want an evil-sorcerer type villain in your story, but it's another thing to avoid having any sort of antagonist at all. A story without an antagonist gets weird pretty quick.

I'll string a fiddle with your guts and make you play it while I dance.