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

Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.

Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.

I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.

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

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.

If you do not love what you do, if you are not appropriately grateful for the chance to create something magical each time you sit down at the computer or with a pencil and paper in hand, somewhere along the way your writing will betray you.