There are dance artists, painting artists and writing artists. Authors are writing artists. You can practice art in whatever medium you choose, and words are mine.

And he began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name, had made himself whole: a man who, knowing his whole true self, cannot be used or possessed by any power other than himself, and whose life therefore is lived for life's sake and never in the service of ruin, or pain, or hatred, or the dark.

Can true function arise from basic dysfunction?

The one thing a writer has to have is a pencil and some paper. That's enough, so long as she knows that she and she alone is in charge of that pencil, and responsible, she and she alone, for what it writes on that paper.

You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.

Art, like sex, cannot be carried on indefinitely solo; after all, they have the same enemy, sterility.

Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.