Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary.

I liked the place I came from. But a lot of what I liked about it was that I had come from there.

Occasionally.. .what you have to do is go back to the beginning and see everything in a new way.

You cannot overestimate the role of intuition in fiction writing. Or the role of accident or randomness. These things are very central. This is never really admitted. You have to cover the pages. You have to have those people do things. And the things they do have to be relevant to the entire concern. The specific things they do don't much matter, you just have to have them do something that counts.

I wish I'd known at the beginning that all I really had to do is trust myself. Everything would work out as if by magic once I actually leaned back into my imagination and just let it work, and not question it and not fret about it.

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

God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction.