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.

If you are ever completely satisfied with something you have written, you are setting your sights too low. But if you can't let go of your material even after you have done the best that you can with it, you are setting your sights too high.

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

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

I want you, as a reader, to experience what I experience, to let that other world, that imaginary world that I have created, tell you things about the real world.

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

There is much to admire in Peter Brett's writing, and his concept is brilliant. There's action and suspense all the way.