Readers re-create any story to suit their own needs. They re-clothe the story in their own shirts. Put simply: just as we write the story we need to ….

The thing I want to know is, if you tell your brain not to do stuff... and it keeps doing it anyway, does that mean your mind has a mind of its own? ….

Time may heal all wounds, but it does not erase the scars..

Intuition works best when you remember that “tuition” is part of it. You need to have paid ahead of time (ie done your prep work) so as to prepare th….

Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood..

Language helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition..

A child who can love the oddities of a fantasy book cannot possibly be xenophobic as an adult. What is a different color, a different culture, a diff….

Storytelling is our oldest form of remembering the promises we have made to one another and to our various gods, and the promises given in return; it….

You write to be read. That is the bottom line..

What makes a good book? Scholars and critics have been debating that question for decades. I like books that touch my head and my heart at the same t….

They [Fairy Tales] are talking about real emotions, telling true stories, through the medium of metaphor. People used to understand metaphor better t….

It is the last thing we learn, / listening to the creature world..

Sometimes living takes more courage than dying..

You know how it is: as soon as you decide to forget something, your brain comes to the conclusion that it's the most fascinating thing in the world..

The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaking to the human condition, the longings we all ha….

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….

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

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….

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….

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

Exercise the writing muscle every day..