Occupation: Novelist Birth: March 5, 1952
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….
I wonder if I can write this history, or if on every page there will be some sneaking show of a bitterness I thought long dead. I think myself cured ….
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….
Start writing sooner. Don't wait for permission. Don't hesitate..
That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention..
Do you do this because you live such short lives? Tell yourselves wild tales of what might happen tomorrow, and feel all the feelings of events that ….
All events, no matter how earthshaking or bizarre, are diluted within moments of their occurrence the the continuance of the necessary routines of da….
To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group..
The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man says..
When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities..
King Shrewd is expecting me, rather he isn't expecting me, and that is precisely why I must go to him now..
How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?.
Writers really do that. We weep over our characters. We are saddened sometimes for days when we say goodbye to a world or a character. They do become….
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….
What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life..
For the weakest has but to try his strength to find it, and then he shall be strong..
Very little about being a writer is signing an autograph. It's sitting in a room and writing. Getting it out..
Death is always less painful and easier than life! You speak true. And yet we do not, day to day, choose death. Because ultimately, death is not the ….
In real life, things don't all end at the nice same place. To keep the story real, there has to be kind of a ragged edge at the end of a novel..
There is a dead spot in the night, that coldest, blackest time when the world has forgotten evening and dawn is not yet a promise. A time when it is ….
When both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril..