One of the things everybody seems to want to ask writers is, "Where do you get your ideas?" When people ask me this, my usual response is, "Ideas are….

Tell the story you want to tell, and let it be as long as it needs to be. Worry about marketing it later..

Of course it doesn't make sense." Lady Wendall said. "The rules of society rarely do..

No proper princess would come out looking for dragons," Woraug objected. "Well I'm not a proper princess then!" Cimorene snapped. "I make cherries ju….

You mean he thinks I'm going to get MORE offers?" Kim said, appalled. "He doesn't seem to be the only one that thinks so." Mairelon said. "Aunt Agath….

She probably enjoys cutting up everyone's happiness. Not to mention cutting up other parts of people; given her penchant for poisoning people and tur….

You mean I'm going to have to do a spell in front of a bunch of toffs?" Kim said, outraged that no one had mentioned this before she had agreed to th….

He wasn't a medical doctor, just educated all the way up as far as you can get..

News of Daniel's disappearance does not alarm me as it might have done a week ago. Given recent events, very little alarms me as it might have done a….

Sometimes I couldn't help thinking that the unluckiest thing about being the thirteenth child was having all those older brothers and sisters telling….

Then they gave me a loaf of bread and told me to walk through the forest and give some to anyone who asked. I did exactly what they told me, and the ….

The efficiency of the cleaning solution in liquefying wizards suggested the operation of an antithetical principal,which-" "Did you have to get him s….

Sometimes, though, you have to do things for family, even if you'd rather not..

She who laughs last may not invariably laugh best, but she does laugh..

I’d much rather have good teeth than have diamonds and roses drop out of my mouth whenever I said something.

Kim was more than a little inclined to snarl at him, but in the past few days she had learned that snarling at Mairelon did little good. He simply sm….

Always be polite to a dragon. It's harder than it sounds. Dragon etiquette is incredibly complicated, and if you make a mistake, the dragon eats you..

Brant's an idealist, and he's competent. There are few more dangerous combinations in this world... Heroes are even more dangerous than idealists..

How can you know it's the best, if you don't learn about anything else?.

Ideas are the easy part. The hard part is writing them down..

Humility is as good for the soul as it is for the memory.