You spend so much time wondering who you are, don't you think? You flounder about, searching for your identity, when most of the time it is plain as the nose on your face. You struggle with questions of purpose and need, and forget that the answers are found mostly inside yourselves.

We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making.

The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present. The future I have shown you tonight is not yet fixed. But it is more likely to become so with the passing of every day because nothing is being done to turn it aside. If you would change it, do as I have told you.

If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical.

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

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

Evil contained is not evil destroyed.