I Want You, As A Reader, To

I Am Incomplete Without My Work. I Am So Closely Bound To It, So Much Identified By It, That Without It I Think I Would Crumble Into Dust And Drift Away.

If You Do Not Hear Music In Your Words, You Have Put Too Much Thought Into Your Writing And Not Enough Heart.

If You Are Always Frightened For Yourself You Can't Act, And Then Life Loses Its Purpose. You Just Have To Tell Yourself That, When You Get Right Down To It, You Don't Matter All That Much.

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

Writing Fantasy Lets Me Imagine A Great Deal More Than, Say, Writing About Alligators, And Lets Me Write About Places More Distant Than Florida, But I Can Tell You Things About Florida And Alligators, Let You Make The Connection All On Your Own.