I believe a writer's most important skill lies in being able to see things from different perspectives..

My only real daydreamy casting over the years has been Natalie Portman for Denna. She's an amazing actress, and Denna is going to be one of the harde….

You're sure your new roommate won't be like the last one who wore tinfoil socks and had a tendency to occasionally urinate in the refrigerator. You'r….

A lot of new writers assume you have to know the where the story is going and that it flows out as molten gold. But really, sometimes you think you a….

I really enjoy work to a purpose. Maybe that makes me kind of strange. In some ways - and this is going to sound awful - it could be that writing is ….

The good thing about working on the books for 14 years before they hit the shelves is that I worked out most of the kinks long before they were publi….

The myth stems from the belief that writing is some mystical process. That it's magical. That it abides by its own set of rules different from all ot….

My bad luck got tangled up with my bad decisions, and I'm paying for it..

I'm just very careful with my words when I write. Obsessively careful. I'm the sort of person who worries about the difference between "slim" and "sl….

Humor is important. If you're going to tell any sort of realistic story, you're going to have to have humor in it, because people are funny. Clever p….

Unfortunately, a lot of fantasy is chock full of sexism and racism. A lot of authors don't even realize they're doing it, and a lot of readers don't ….

Writing a good query letter has very little to do with writing a good novel. But if you can't write the one, it makes it really hard to get the other….

What do they do to students at the University who eavesdrop?” Bast asked curiously. “I haven’t the slightest idea. I was never caught. I think making….

There is a difference between something being essential, and it being necessary. If you take your favorite book and strip it down to what is merely e….

But sometimes the best help a person can find is helping someone else..

Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made..

Fencing is more a sport than a martial art. It would be like basing your knowledge of roman phalanx warfare on NFL football..

As a writer, I first felt successful before I was published..

After an awkward pause, Bast extended his hand. Chronicler hesitated for a bare moment before reaching out quickly, as if he were sticking his hand i….

Secrets of the heart. We swallow hard against them every day, forcing them deep inside us. There they sit, growing heavier, festering. Given enough t….

Just pity him, my boy. Tomorrow we'll be on our way, but he'll have to keep his own disagreeable company until the day he dies..