Fear Is A Fire To Temper Courage

I Didn't Want Readers To Have To Make Allowances For What They Couldn't See, But To Be Able To Say To Themselves That The Fabric Of The Magic Detailed Was Perfectly Believable.

What Kind Of World Permitted Such Terrible Injustice, Where Good Men Were Stripped Of Everything And Soulless Creatures Of Malice And Hatred Survived To Glory In Their Pointless Death?

If You Don't Think There Is Magic In Writing, You Probably Won't Write Anything Magical.

I Want You, As A Reader, To Experience What I Experience, To Let That Other World, That Imaginary World That I Have Created, Tell You Things About The Real World.

Even After Sword Was Published, I Was Still Only Thinking About The Next Book, Elfstones.