Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours. Slight her and there will come a day when you call and she will not answer. So I began sleeping less to give her the time she needed.

Nobody cooks using just one ingredient. Why would you write using just one flavor of story?

Humor is important for is pacing. If your whole book is just drama drama drama, it's going to wear down the reader.

Half a King is my favorite book by Joe Abercrombie so far, and that's saying something.

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.

What I'd love more than anything is for Worldbuilders to continue to grow and become entangled in all the different corners of the geek community.

She reached up and lay her hand on my cheek. "You have the sweetest face," she said, looking at me dreamily. "It's like the perfect kitchen." I fought not to smile. This was the delirium. She'd fade in and out of it before the profound exhaustion dragged her down into unconsciousness. If you see someone spouting nonsense to themselves in an alleyway in Tarbean, odds are they're not actually crazy, just a sweet-eater deranged by too much denner. "A kitchen?" "Yes," she said. "Everything matches and the sugar bowl is right where it should be.