What kind of world permitted such terrible injustice, where good men were stripped of everything and soulless creatures of malice and hatred survived to glory in their pointless death?

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

If anything in your life is more important than writing - anything at all - you should walk away now while you still can. Forewarned is forearmed. For those who cannot or will not walk away, you need only to remember this. Writing is life. Breathe deeply of it.

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

On the other hand, I still approach each book with the same basic plan in mind - to put some people under severe stress and see how they hold up.

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.

You can either give in to what youre feeling, just say ‘okay, enough is enough’ and be done with it, or you can fight it.