I've read fantasy my whole life. Quite literally; my mom read me The Hobbit before I could read stuff to myself. So I love fantasy; that's what I rea….

Are you hurt?" "Absolutely," I said. "Especially in my everywhere..

All the truth in the world is held in stories..

I have no balance. My life is a hot mess..

No hard feelings about that time in the Crucible when you mixed my salts and I was nearly blind for a day. No. No, really, drink up!.

My granda always told me that fall's the time to root up something you don't want coming back to trouble you.' Kote mimicked the quaver of an old man….

Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain..

I don't speak fluent bumpkin..

I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned.

Don't get me wrong, hard and soft fantasy stories can both be good. But you need to know which camp you're in. I'm into realism. I'm a hard fantasy g….

I don't try to take a person out of our world and put them into my world; that wouldn't work. It's sort of like bad Photoshop: If you see something P….

I have a blog where I keep in touch with my fans. I write about things that are important to me. Sometimes on there I'll just tell a little story abo….

I need you to breathe for me..

Right now my favorite thing is working to recall our absolute shitbag of a governor. He's been screwing up my state for more than a year. I want him ….

For me the really cool parts of being an author don't have anything to do with getting onto a bestseller list..

Do you know what it's like to run spellcheck for six hours? It's like a party in purgatory. A party in purgatory where all they have to drink is suga….

Reading can almost be viewed as empathy training. Movies have better action scenes, sure. But books are uniquely suited to showing you the inside of ….

If you fall, you fall," Elodin shrugged. "Sometimes falling teaches us things too." In dreams you often fall before you wake..

I will say the most raw joy I've experienced reading has probably come from the times I've been reading with my little boys..

Roses! I swear you men have all your romance from the same worn book. Flowers are a good thing, a sweet thing to give a lady. But it is always roses,….

That is like throwing two virgins into a bed. Enthusiasm, passion, and ignorance are not a good combination. Someone is likely to get hurt..