Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making.

I have become very critical of the whole book award system and could preach on that subject for quite a while, but I do know what an award can mean to a writer early in her career. It can give an essential validation.

The borderline between prose and poetry is one of those fog-shrouded literary minefields where the wary explorer gets blown to bits before ever seeing anything clearly. It is full of barbed wire and the stumps of dead opinions.

Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate when forced.

To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.

There is no kingdom like the forests.

A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it.