A World In Which Elves Exist And

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.

I Didn't Want Readers To Have To Make Allowances For What They Couldn't See, But To Be Able To Say To Themselves That The Fabric Of The Magic Detailed Was Perfectly Believable.

My Interests Are Different Now Than They Were Thirty Years Ago.

Cats Can Do Whatever They Want, Whenever They Want, Without Regard To What Anyone Says Or Does. Rather Like Princesses.

There Is Poetry In Fiction. If You Cannot See It And Feel It When You Write, You Need To Step Back And Examine What You Are Doing Wrong. If You Have Not Figured Out How To Write A Simple Declarative Sentence And Make It Sing With That Poetry, You Are Not Yet Ready To Write An Entire Book.