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

I will say the most raw joy I've experienced reading has probably come from the times I've been reading with my little boys.

I am no poet. I do not love words for the sake of words. I love words for what they can accomplish. Similarly, I am no arithmetician. Numbers that speak only of numbers are of little interest to me.

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

Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made.

There is nothing I can't do writing in Fantasy. I can have romance, I can have mystery, I can have drama, I can have good characters - I can have everything you can do in any other genre... plus a dragon.

Small facts lead to great knowing.