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

I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say to themselves that the fabric of the magic detailed was perfectly believable.

I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.

We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.

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.

Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.

If you are always frightened for yourself you can't act, and then life loses its purpose. You just have to tell yourself that, when you get right down to it, you don't matter all that much.