The act of sharing with readers was at first too much of an intimate thing. But it evolved into an intense necessity to share.

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

A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it. But first, while moving in a circle, it hits its target. So does gossip.

What we need in fantasy is the sudden balm of clarity - a temporary reprieve from life's white noise and clamor of pain, a kind of time-out. Such clarity, a new perspective, is made possible by fantastic metaphor.

The satisfaction of short fiction does not come close to the rich pleasure I get as a writer in the long deep immersion in the same long work and its growing complexity. I suppose you might say I love to wallow in my characters and imaginary worlds. I love to play with the whole necklace, not just one glittering stone.

Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot.

I love to fool my readers, but in a good way. If you've read any of my work, there's a good chance that at some point I surprised you.