Nothing is lost that we do not first see as lost. Visions born of fear give birth to our failing. Visions born of hope give birth to our success. What is possible lives within us, and it only remains for us to discover it.
We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.
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.
Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on.
Why pretend to be something you’re not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.
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.
If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.
Fear is a fire to temper courage and resolve. Use it so.
What kind of world permitted such terrible injustice, where good men were stripped of everything and soulless creatures of malice and hatred survived to glory in their pointless death?
In bad weather, I spent hours drawing action figures on paper, coloring them, backing them on cardboard, then cutting them out and creating whole stories around their lives.
On the other hand, I still approach each book with the same basic plan in mind – to put some people under severe stress and see how they hold up.
You shouldn’t believe everything you hear you’re young, not stupid.
Evil contained is not evil destroyed.
You can either give in to what youre feeling, just say ‘okay, enough is enough’ and be done with it, or you can fight it.
I haven’t made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books.
Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant than Florida, but I can tell you things about Florida and alligators, let you make the connection all on your own.
Fiction writing is a twenty-four-hou r-a-day occupation. You never leave your work behind. It is always with you, and to some extent, you are always thinking about it. You don’t take your work home; your work never leaves home. It lives inside you. It resides and grows and comes alive in your mind.
If you are ever completely satisfied with something you have written, you are setting your sights too low. But if you can’t let go of your material even after you have done the best that you can with it, you are setting your sights too high.
The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present.
A cat never discusses his business with humans, not even Princesses. A cat never explains and never apologizes. A cat never alibis. You must accept a cat as it is and for what it is and not expect more than the pleasure of its company.