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

You can't force folks to have good sense, even if they're family. Maybe especially then..

I most certainly can deny it. Of course, if I did, I'd be lying." Mairelon.

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

Very well. You may help me exterminate the Society of Wizards..

I loved getting my M. B. A., and I really enjoyed being an accountant and financial analyst before I quit my day job twenty-five years ago to write f….

Well,” said the frog, “what are you going to do about it?” “Marrying Therandil? I don’t know. I’ve tried talking to my parents, but they won’t listen….

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

This is the most important lesson you must learn about magic," Miss Ochiba went on. "There are many ways of seeing. Each has an element of truth, but….

If you want to build a car, you don't slap a bunch of iron ore, some sand, a rubber tree, and a couple of cows together and call it good.

Well?' Jasper said when Mairelon did not reply. 'Who are you?' 'No, no,' Mairelon said. 'I asked you first. I also, if you recall, asked how you foun….

Nothing you will object to," James replied in a soothing tone. I cannot think how he came to imagine that he would know what I might or might not obj….

Rennie didn't quite dare to answer back, but she looked a whole book and a couple of extra chapters..

Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things..

Murphy is a writer's best friend, but you have to keep an eye on him, or he'll steal the silver..

It took us most of the morning to put together the letter she sent to the Frontier Management Department, and I learned a lot about how to be frigidl….

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

I see you've decided to take my advice after all, Richard." Lady Wendall's amused voice said from somewhere above and behind him. "Marrying your ward….

No matter how good you are at sneaking, you can't ever sneak well enough so that mosquitoes won't find you, and no matter how worried and tense you a….

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….

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….