You shouldn't believe everything you hear you're young, not stupid.

You can either give in to what youre feeling, just say ‘okay, enough is enough’ and be done with it, or you can fight it.

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

We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making.

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.

Fiction writing is a twenty-four-hou r-a-day occupation. You never leave your work behind. It is always with you, and to some extent, you are always thinking about it. You don't take your work home; your work never leaves home. It lives inside you. It resides and grows and comes alive in your mind.

I am incomplete without my work. I am so closely bound to it, so much identified by it, that without it I think I would crumble into dust and drift away.