I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely controlled by the soulless cretins known as publishers.

For our stories are not yet finished, and perhaps will never be.

That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.

Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?Then, leave me to my foolishness.

As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not that the books are bad; editors won't even read them.

The biggest fool is the one who thinks he knows it all.

I do one Xanth novel a year, because at the moment that is all that publishers will accept; they don't want any other type of fiction from me, so Xanth pays my way.