Marion Zimmer Bradley took apart my first submission to her, covered the manuscript in red ink revisions, and told me to try her again. I had never been so reeling with authorial joy as I had been that day, holding Marion's letter and seeing that ravaged manuscript - finally, it meant that someone cared!

Our world is so bursting-full of natural wonder that we are all experiencing a sensory overload. We are no longer perceiving all of Ú the details, just the ones that immediately interest us.

Some people prefer eating dessert to the main course. These people have never been really hungry.

I think I became [writer] despite myself - tricking myself into it, really.

To every rule there is an exception—and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one!

Desire is like fog on a bathroom mirror -- its presence incites you to wipe the mirror, and see yourself clearly again.

I think fantasy literature is the one true literature of hope and imagination.