Happy children do not seem to grow up to be writers.

It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.

Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn't done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia.

I hope to read a Harry Potter novel soon, to see what it's all about. I admit to being annoyed that many good light fantasy writers have had trouble getting published, in England and elsewhere, when it is obvious the readers were waiting for us all along.

Every person professes to love good and hate evil, but in his actions his real preferences emerges.

No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to thousands, there are many familiar aspects.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.