It took me about 12 years to reach my million-word mark. The challenge now is to continue to challenge myself.

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.

I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre.

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.

I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command.

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.

When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.

During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories as to how magic worked as there were cultures and religions.

There is nothing that compares to an unexpected round of applause.

I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath.

One of the most empowering things about being human is the fact that a single choice can change the entire direction of our lives. What are you choosing for yourself?

Family drama is a trade off for having family.

Forgiving is all forgetting is another thing.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

House majority leader, Kevin McCarthy, slammed [Donald's] Trump's wild claims about election fraud, saying, quote, "The election is over, let's move on."

A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.

What I like the best is when I can be still and not move.

Music is the language of the heart, and conservatives always screw it up.

It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.

The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.