If you get the characters right you've done sometimes nearly half the work. I sometimes find I get the characters right then the characters will often help me write the book - not what they look like that's not very important - what people look like is not about their character. You have to describe the shape they leave in the world, how they react to things, what effect they have on people and you do that by telling their story.

People were stupid, sometimes. They thought the Library was a dangerous place because of all the magical books, which was true enough, but what made it really one of the most dangerous places there could ever be was the simple fact that it was a library.

I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then gettin' upset 'cos they act like people.

One day all of us will die but - and this is the important thing - we are not dead yet.

Most modern fantasy just rearranges the furniture in Tolkien's attic.

The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.

Cats gravitate to kitchens like rocks gravitate to gravity.