I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.

Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.

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

The biggest doubts come in the five minutes after I hit send.

It was hard to reconcile the drumbeats and lifted voices in the night with my memories of flames and the screams of dying men. How could humanity range so effortlessly from the sublime to the savage and back again?

When we come back to fantasy, I think we're actually coming back to the real bedrock of storytelling. Our national or international genre really is fantasy, if you think about the worldwide myths and legends and stories that we all know, whether we're talking about Little Red Riding Hood or the Arabian Nights or Noah's Ark or Hercules. These are stories that cross many cultures in much the same way that dragons cross many cultures.

I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.