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.

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.

I only know one story. But oftentimes small pieces seem to be stories themselves.

It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.

After two years of sending out query letters and failing to get an agent, I made friends with an author, who was nice enough to introduce me to his agent. That got my foot in the door.

I like your manly bravado," she said. "Do it some more.

I smiled,"Deoch, my heart is made of stronger stuff than glass. When she strikes she'll find it strong as iron-bound brass, or gold and adamant together mixed. Don't think I am unaware, some startled deer to stand transfixed by hunter's horns. It's she who should take care, for when she strikes, my heart will make a sound so beautiful and bright that it can't help but bring her back to me in winged light.