Every writer knows a lot more about their characters and story than actually makes it onto the page.

That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.

But a living is not a life.

Fitz: Shall we get up tomorrow and go looking for a wild pig? Nighteyes: I didn’t lose any wild pigs, did you?

I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world.

Some people say 'I want to be a writer,' and some people say, 'I want to write.'

It's all connected. When you save any part of the world, you've saved the whole world. In fact, that's the only way it can be done.