The muse whispers to you when she chooses, and you can't tell her to come back later, because you quickly learn in this business that she might not come back at all.

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.

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

Cats can do whatever they want, whenever they want, without regard to what anyone says or does. Rather like Princesses.

I haven't made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books.

There is poetry in fiction. If you cannot see it and feel it when you write, you need to step back and examine what you are doing wrong. If you have not figured out how to write a simple declarative sentence and make it sing with that poetry, you are not yet ready to write an entire book.

...[Y]ou have an inner strength that makes it possible for you to do things other people couldn't even begin to think of doing.