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

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

Nothing is lost that we do not first see as lost. Visions born of fear give birth to our failing. Visions born of hope give birth to our success. What is possible lives within us, and it only remains for us to discover it.

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

Herein lies the heart and soul of the nations. Their right to be free men, Their desire to live in peace, Their courage to seek out truth, Herein lies the Sword of Shannara.

I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say to themselves that the fabric of the magic detailed was perfectly believable.

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