Nobody can protect anybody else from vileness. Or from pain. All you can do is not let it break you in half and keep on going until you get to the other side.

Close your mouth and get out of the way, because here comes Kelly Link, than whom no one is better.

I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.

There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.

To do magic, to do great magic, he has to know himself as a piece of the universe.A piece of the universe?A little piece that has all the rest of it in it. Everything outside of him is also inside of him.

Everyone wants to get better as they go along, but sometimes it's all you can do to stay consistent.

An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm.