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

Let me tell you something you haven't learned yet, something you learn only by living awhile. As you get older, you find that life begins to wear you down. Doesn't matter who you are or what you do, it happens. Experience, time, events - they all conspire against you to steal away your energy, to erode your confidence, to make you question things you wouldn't have given a second thought to when you were young. It happens gradually, a chipping away that you don't even notice at first, and then one day it's there. You wake up and you just don't have the fire anymore." He smiled.

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.

When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.

We should not be less than what we are.

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.