However, I think I managed to reach a new level with Koko, and I will always be grateful for the experience.

Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity.

I wish I could go back and re-write my first novel for the first time. Because I really didn't know what I was doing, and although it was published, it is, after all this time, kind of an embarrassment.

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

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.

From a tale one expects a bit of wildness, of exaggeration and dramatic effect. The tale has no inherent concern with decorum, balance or harmony. ... A tale may not display a great deal of structural, psychological, or narrative sophistication, though it might possess all three, but it seldom takes its eye off its primary goal, the creation of a particular emotional state in its reader. Depending on the tale, that state could be wonder, amazement, shock, terror, anger, anxiety, melancholia, or the momentary frisson of horror.

You'll never get anything done if you walk around with an unchipped heart.