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.

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.

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.

That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.

Without the dark side you would never see the light side of the stars

Your actions create an "energy vortex" that draws in the necessary ingredients for your venture.

It was the incommunicable scent of this country, its intangible essence, that she had brought along with her to France.

I started auditioning when I was about 10 and I didn't get my first job until I was 12, and two years at that age is really hard.

When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page.

I have an attorney. I'm looking to be rich like Harrison [Ford]. I'm trying to have planes and do all that stuff.

What wisdom, what warning can prevail against gladness? There is no law so strong that a little gladness may not transgress.

In the dancehall world, we have crews and they battle. It's part of the entire culture surrounding dancehall.

I have a capacity in my soul for taking in God entirely. I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God.

I believe over the long term he's going to have the money, and he's got the message, that this is going to be one of the finalists for the presidential campaign.