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.

Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear.

I'm honestly not a big fan of pitching things. I'm a firm believer of letting the product speak for iteself.

I think the best part of being an author is that I get to learn about anything I want and explain it away as research.

I can't give you the moon,” the tinker said. “She doesn't belong to me. She belongs only to herself.

It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think.

I’d heard you were dead.” "I heard you wear a red lace corset,” I said matter-of-factly. “But I don’t believe every bit of nonsense that gets rumored about.