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

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.

You can get away with breaking all of the other rules at least once in a while, but you can't get away with breaking this one. Readers will accept almost anything from you if you don't make them feel they have wasted their time and money. Remember, you can bore readers in a lot of different ways. It doesn't necessarily take a dearth of action; too much action can get you the same result. Everything in writing, like in life, requires balance.

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

Fear is a fire to temper courage and resolve. Use it so.

I remember one winter, when I was about five or six, I spent three days with another boy, tracking a bobcat that had been sighted in another county fifty miles away, but which I was sure had come into our neighborhood.

Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant than Florida, but I can tell you things about Florida and alligators, let you make the connection all on your own.