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 you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical.

I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.

The reader wants to see something happen between pages one and four hundred, and nothing happens if the characters don't change.

It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope.

Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.

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