What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.

Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the lives of my characters, as well, albeit on a much different level.

If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.

We must nurture and love, if life is to have any real meaning. But First we must find a way to survive against the things that prevent us from doing so.

Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.

I remember one winter, when I was about five or six, I spent three days with another boy, tracking a bobcat that had been sighted in another county fifty miles away, but which I was sure had come into our neighborhood.

Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.