If you are going to write, say, fantasy - stop reading fantasy. You've already read too much. Read other things; read westerns, read history, read anything that seems interesting, because if you only read fantasy and then you start to write fantasy, all you're going to do is recycle the same old stuff and move it around a bit.

Little crimes breed big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off.

The reaper does not listen to the harvest.

I express preference for a chronological sequence of events which precludes a violence.

Ninety percent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact.

I thought it very strange, and very sad, that the fairy kingdom largely appears to be English. I thought it was time for some regional representation. And the Nac Mac Feegle are, well, they're like tiny little Scottish Smurfs who have seen Braveheart altogether too many times.

We're philosophers. We think, therefore we am.