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What you write chooses you.
Who would you be but who you are?
Evil contained is not evil destroyed.
We should not be less than what we are.
Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.
We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.
Fear is a fire to temper courage and resolve. Use it so.
Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on.
I haven't made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books.
If I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them.
My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.
For a writer, its very attractive to stay in one world for a time.
You shouldn't believe everything you hear you're young, not stupid.
When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.
I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.
I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore.
It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope.
The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present
I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.
I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.
If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical.
Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.
I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.
Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.
Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.
A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.
Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.
Might have, could have, may have, should have—the haves and have nots reduced to pointless possibilities.
What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.
If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.
Faith, Princess," the Prism Cat repeated. "It is a highly underrated weapon against the dark things in this world.
The Golden Compass is one of the best fantasy / adventure stories that I have read. This is a book no one should miss.
Cats can do whatever they want, whenever they want, without regard to what anyone says or does. Rather like Princesses.
There is much to admire in Peter Brett's writing, and his concept is brilliant. There's action and suspense all the way.
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.
After all, you put a lot into creating a universe and everything that goes with it, and it seems a shame to use it only once.
...[Y]ou have an inner strength that makes it possible for you to do things other people couldn't even begin to think of doing.
The reader wants to see something happen between pages one and four hundred, and nothing happens if the characters don't change.
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.
We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making.
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.
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.
I am incomplete without my work. I am so closely bound to it, so much identified by it, that without it I think I would crumble into dust and drift away.
When she cried, he would say, "there is nothing wrong with crying. Your feelings tell you who are. They tell what is important. Don't ever be ashamed of them.
She has her gown nicely in place tonight, doesn't she? Black velvet and sparkles, not a thread left hanging. Clever girl, this city. Even the sky is her friend.
My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name a few.
I want you, as a reader, to experience what I experience, to let that other world, that imaginary world that I have created, tell you things about the real world.
Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the lives of my characters, as well, albeit on a much different level.
The more complex and overwhelming the threat to a protagonist, the better the opportunity for the author to create a compelling conflict and a dramatic resolution.
The muse whispers to you when she chooses, and you can't tell her to come back later, because you quickly learn in this business that she might not come back at all.