The fairy tale journey may look like an outward trek across plains and mountains, through castles and forests, but the actual movement is inward, into the lands of the soul.

Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it's been around as long as literature has been around.

I wanted to be a scientist. But I had no math skills.

What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past.

The simple truth is that being a creative artist takes courage; it’s not a job for the faint of heart. It takes courage each and every time you put a book or poem or painting before the public, because it is, in fact, enormously revealing.

Our lives are our mythic journeys, and our happy endings are still to be won.

A good novel editor is invisible.