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.

If I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them.

For a writer, its very attractive to stay in one world for a time.

THE NAME OF THE WIND marks the debut of a writer we would all do well to watch. Patrick Rothfuss has real talent, and his tale of Kvothe is deep and intricate and wondrous.

Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on.

After all, you put a lot into creating a universe and everything that goes with it, and it seems a shame to use it only once.

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.