Fish are not the best authority on water..

Aren't hidden doors the most alluring? The old stories point that out surely. Even the greatest heroes and heroines fall under the spell of a locked ….

Touch magic. Pass it on..

Ideas are the cheapest part of the writing. They are free. The hard part is what you do with ideas you've gathered..

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….

But as the scissors snip-snapped through her hair and the razor shaved the rest, she realized with a sudden awful panic that she could no longer reca….

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

Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancer….

Write, write, and write some more. Think of writing as a muscle that needs lots of exercise..

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

Stories," he'd said, his voice low and almost husky, "we are made up of stories. And even the one's that seem the most like lies can be our deepest h….

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….