I take back everything I ever said about that boy being clever." He turned around to face the bar while leveling an accusatory finger at the closed d….

Writing from a teen's perspective is easy as pie. At least I've actually been a teen. I've never been a woman, or an ethnic minority, or a weary old ….

Over his own dark Cealdish beard. "Nothing like your marvelous facebear..

I’d heard he had started a fistfight in one of the seedier local taverns because someone had insisted on saying the word “utilize” instead of “use..

It was only then I realized I didn't know the name of Elodin's class. I leafed through the ledger until I spotted Elodin's name, then ran my finger b….

I have an apple that thinks its a pear. And a bun that thinks it’s a cat. And a lettuce that thinks its a lettuce." "It’s a clever lettuce, then." "H….

Performance and music are inexorably tied together. And hell, I'll watch Brittany's Toxic music video all day. But there's a difference between that ….

I can't give you the moon,” the tinker said. “She doesn't belong to me. She belongs only to herself..

We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be..

You can have an interesting story about a person living an interesting life. And if it's done well, that is just as engaging as the end of the world.….

The thing that helps me do a good job is that I don't feel the need to explain everything about the world to my reader. I'm not writing a history tex….

Some of my Arcanum bunkmates taught me a card game called dogs-breath. I returned the favor by giving an impromptu lesson in psychology, probability,….

If you're an actor, you know people are going to recognize you in a restaurant. If you're a rock star, you know people are going to stop you on the s….

Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear..

I have heard what poets write about women. They rhyme and rhapsodize and lie. I have watched sailors on the shore stare mutely at the slow-rolling sw….

On his first hand he wore rings of stone, Iron, Amber, Wood and Bone. There were rings unseen on his second hand, One was blood in a flowing band, On….

The air was heavy with the smell of leather and dust, of old parchment and binding glue. It smelled of secrets..

Isn't that the way of the world? We want the sweet things, but we need the unpleasant ones..

Caffeine helps a lot. That and a certain amount of isolation..

Then I played the song that hides in the center of me. That wordless music that moves through the secret places in my heart. I played it carefully, s….

I spoke it soft, but close enough to brush against her lips. I spoke it quiet, but near enough so that the sound of it went twining through her hair.….