Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.

This is for writers yet to be published who think the uphill climb will never end. Keep believing. This is also for published writers grown jaded by the process. Remember how lucky you are.

The muse whispers to you when she chooses, and you can't tell her to come back later, because you quickly learn in this business that she might not come back at all.

If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.

We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are.

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.

We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.

Fear is a fire to temper courage and resolve. Use it so.

We must nurture and love, if life is to have any real meaning. But First we must find a way to survive against the things that prevent us from doing so.

Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.

Her scent blazed in my throat and I was glad. It was a pain that meant she was alive. As long as I burned, she was safe.

as self-knowledge develops, we begin to care more about what we think and less about what others ask of us. We

He wins his battles by making no mistakes.Making no mistakes is what establishes the certainty of victory, for it means conquering an enemy that is already defeated.

Success is not a doorway it's a staircase.

The final arbitrator in philosophy is not how we think but what we do.

It's a law of life - check it and you'll see it holds true in every situation of life.

His face is livid, gaunt his whole body, his breath is green with gall; his tongue drips poison.

It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.

You can dream big and it doesn't matter what you look like, where you come from.

I'm always thinking about losing money as opposed to making money. Don't focus on making money, focus on protecting what you have