Fantasy is not the literature of subversion of the status quo but of 'awakening to' the status quo.

Being smart as a whip includes knowing when not to crack it.

Here is where I like to burst in as a writer, to take one strong sensory detail or image and instead of enhancing it or directing attention to it by shouting about it, I simply take it away.

A made-up proverb from Dreams of the Compass Rose says, "In the desert, the only god is a well." I love exploring the intensity of such juxtaposition, the dangerous edge.

Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone's hand is the beginning of a journey. At other times, it is allowing another to take yours.

I'll tell you a secret. Old storytellers never die. They disappear into their own story.

Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone's home and backyard.