I will always be an artist first. I see my writing as an extension of my illustrating.

My advice to writers is: READ! A lot. Then read some more. read, read, read, read!

My "mission", if you can call it that, is to connect with my readers on an emotional level and have them come away with a stronger impression of the basic message in the story I am illustrating.

I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about your books than you do!

My method is subtraction. I use erasers to make the images in my paintings. You really have to see it to fully get it, but it is basically erasing shapes from a background of paint.

The approach to "building" a story with words and phrases is no different than "building" a painting with brushes and pigments.

Research is always a very necessary part of my process because all of my books to this point have been historical. Time spent in the library adds to one's wealth as a writer or artist.

I like people. Humanity. My family is a part of my work. They contribute throughout the process with critiques, advice, opinions, etc.

To their simple, degenerate minds there was only one thing to do when faced by a God more powerful than their own: Convert.Brandon Sanderson(Elantris)

Awareness of mortality exerts a unique power to focus the mind and heart on essentials.

If every man could eat, thinking about another man, life would have been much easier.

Freedom to be yourself is among the most valuable freedoms I know.

This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles.

I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.

We can't manipulate some stars while maintaining other stars as controls; we can't start and stop ice ages, and we can't experiment with designing and evolving dinosaurs.

I looked at 73 climate models going back to 1979 and every single one predicted more warming than happened in the real world.

And all my mother came into mine eyes And gave me up to tears.