In fantasy stories we learn to understand the differences of others, we learn compassion for those things we cannot fathom, we learn the importance o….

Fiction cannot recite the numbing numbers, but it can be that witness, that memory. A storyteller can attempt to tell the human tale, can make a gala….

Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art..

You can only chase a butterfly for so long..

The magical story is not a microscope but a mirror, not a drop of water but a well. It is not simply one thing or two, but a multitude. It is at once….

Childrens books change lives. Stories pour into the hearts of children and help make them what they become..

If you want to write, you write. Talent is simply not enough..

Wood may remain twenty years in the water, but it is still not a fish..

How often is the passing of one storm only a prelude to another..

What is a vow... but the mouth repeating what the heart has already promised?.

I believe that culture begins in the cradle . . .To do without tales and stories and books is to lose humanity's past, is to have no star map for our….

Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen..

Folklore is the perfect second skin. From under its hide, we can see all the shimmering, shadowy uncertainties of the world..

Know, my son, that the enemy will always be with you. He will be in the shadow of your dreams and in your living flesh, for he is the other part of y….

The main plot line is simple: Getting your character to the foot of the tree, getting him up the tree, and then figuring out how to get him down agai….

Exercise the writing muscle every day..

All writers write about themselves, just as the old storytellers chose to tell stories that spoke to and about themselves. They call it the world, bu….

Get up from your desk and wander outside occasionally. To be a good writer one needs to be a good observer, and there isn't a lot to be observed at d….

And for adults, the world of fantasy books returns to us the great words of power which, in order to be tamed, we have excised from our adult vocabul….

A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old..

A mist. A great mist. It covered the entire kingdom. And everyone in it - the good people and the not so good, the young people and the not-so-young,….