Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power..

When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities..

I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with..

Start writing sooner. Don't wait for permission. Don't hesitate..

When both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril..

It's all connected. When you save any part of the world, you've saved the whole world. In fact, that's the only way it can be done..

That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. N….

Someday is someday, and maybe it will be or maybe it won't. This is a human thing, to worry about things that may or may not come to be. You can't ea….

If a man does not die of a wound, then it heals in some fashion, and so it is with loss. From the sharp pain of immediate berevement, both the Prince….

What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life..

When we come back to fantasy, I think we're actually coming back to the real bedrock of storytelling. Our national or international genre really is f….

I am the King's Fool. He is the King-In-Wating. Let him wait..

Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure..

The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will.

You are confusing plumbing and love again..

Some people say 'I want to be a writer,' and some people say, 'I want to write.'.

Her stillness was such a contrast to all the jumbled communication inside me that I suddenly felt what a tiresome fellow I was, always filling the ai….

Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings?.

I began reading everyhing in the family library. Kidnapped, Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe. And of course, if you're running out of books to read y….

No man is so dangerous as the man who cannot decide what he fears..

King Shrewd is expecting me, rather he isn't expecting me, and that is precisely why I must go to him now..