I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.

A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.

Evil contained is not evil destroyed.

In bad weather, I spent hours drawing action figures on paper, coloring them, backing them on cardboard, then cutting them out and creating whole stories around their lives.

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.

What you write chooses you.

Fiction writing is a twenty-four-hou r-a-day occupation. You never leave your work behind. It is always with you, and to some extent, you are always thinking about it. You don't take your work home; your work never leaves home. It lives inside you. It resides and grows and comes alive in your mind.