When you love something, you have to make sure it loves you back, or you'll bring about no end of trouble chasing it.

Anger can keep you warm at night, and wounded pride can spur a man to wondrous things.

Now that I understand how publishing schedules work, I can understand why many authors have the sophomore slump. A year is a long time to wait for a sequel, but it's a short, short time to WRITE a sequel.

But how awful would that be? How terrible to live surrounded by the stark, sharp, hollowness of things that simply were enough?

It wasn't even a good note. 'If you are reading this I am probably dead.' What sort of a note is that?

When you read a fantasy novel part of the fun is getting to explore a new world. Everyone knows that. But I believe the same is true about characters. You can explore interesting people in the same way that you explore a town or a culture.

I do this so you cannot help but hear. A wise man views a moonless night with fear.