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

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

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

What was the worst thing you've ever done? I won't tell you that, but I'll tell you the worst thing that ever happened to me...the most dreadful thing.

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

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

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.