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.

Herein lies the heart and soul of the nations. Their right to be free men, Their desire to live in peace, Their courage to seek out truth, Herein lies the Sword of Shannara.

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

When she cried, he would say, "there is nothing wrong with crying. Your feelings tell you who are. They tell what is important. Don't ever be ashamed of them.

The reader wants to see something happen between pages one and four hundred, and nothing happens if the characters don't change.

The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present

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