Writing about craft has forced me to think more about my own writing technique, and to break down my process in ways that have been enormously helpful to me.

In teaching writing, I'm learning new things about writing.

Guy Gavriel Kays Tigana is, in my opinion, one of the best, if not the best fantasy novel ever written. Its beautifully written, the characters are unforgettable, the worldbuilding is exquisite.

Guy Kay is probably my favorite and the writer I most want to emulate.

I write every day for most of the work day, and I try to write 2,500 words per day... If I don't make it a routine and treat it like a job, I'd never get anything done.

I listen to instrumental jazz and bluegrass, but aside from my AM workout, I have no rituals.

The closer you can get to your setting and to primary sources, the more authentic your history is going to be.

As I write, invariably I encounter more questions and answer those as I go.

I love magic and playing with magic systems. But to me, good fantasy like all fiction comes down to good character and plotting.

Wrote my first "novel" when I was six. Studied a bit in college, but then pursued history... But when I started writing professionally, it was mostly learn as you go.

The best writing advice I ever got was "Keep moving forward, don't retreat into rewrites." The worst came from a book that said "Writing fiction is like telling lies," which just seems stupid to me.

I believe language is infinitely malleable, a live being in our hands, which deserves our great respect and curiosity

How did the Prince Charming of my childhood turn out to be such a crushing disappointment? Maybe he wasn't Prince Charming in the first place.

Don't let your age control your life... Let your life control your age.

There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.

Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.

Things which stimulate my curiosity are pretty far removed from the practical and therefore from classification.

First we have to understand what doubts and fears are, how anxiety and doubts and fears come about. They are a psychic disease.

The translators of the Bible were masters of an English style much fitter for that work than any we see in our present writings; the which is owing to the simplicity that runs through the whole.

I'm playing great tennis. I'm enjoying the tour, having fun with the fans off the court. I'm loving it now.

The older I get the more I realize there's no real good guys or real bad guys, and I'm curious about how the good guys got good and how the bad guys got bad.