Some people are going to be impatient no matter what. If I wrote two books a year, someone out there would be pissed I wasn't writing three.

One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.

And if Hollywood has taught us anything, it's that cool props and special effects are not enough. Story comes first. Everything depends on story.

In brief, worldbuilding is different than setting in my opinion. Setting is a room. A backdrop. It's scenery. But without good worldbuilding, you can't have realistic feeling scenery. You can't have cool, unique backdrops for your story.

Ambrose, your presence is the horseshit frosting on the horseshit cake that is the admissions interview process.

You do not know the first note of the music that moves me.

You are an educated man. You know there are no such things as demons." Bast smiled a terrible smile. "There is only my kind." Bast leaned closer still, Chronicler smelled flowers on his breath. "You are not wise enough to fear me as I should be feared. You do not know the first note of the music that moves me.