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

The more complex and overwhelming the threat to a protagonist, the better the opportunity for the author to create a compelling conflict and a dramatic resolution.

...[Y]ou have an inner strength that makes it possible for you to do things other people couldn't even begin to think of doing.

I am incomplete without my work. I am so closely bound to it, so much identified by it, that without it I think I would crumble into dust and drift away.

When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.

We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.

Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant than Florida, but I can tell you things about Florida and alligators, let you make the connection all on your own.