Faith, Princess," the Prism Cat repeated. "It is a highly underrated weapon against the dark things in this world.

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.

We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.

If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.

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.

Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material for a story, and they look at it that way.

There is much to admire in Peter Brett's writing, and his concept is brilliant. There's action and suspense all the way.