My Interests Are Different Now Than They

Even After Sword Was Published, I Was Still Only Thinking About The Next Book, Elfstones.

I Remember One Winter, When I Was About Five Or Six, I Spent Three Days With Another Boy, Tracking A Bobcat That Had Been Sighted In Another County Fifty Miles Away, But Which I Was Sure Had Come Into Our Neighborhood.

I Want To Kick-start Your Imagination And Let You Discover The Places It Can Take You.

Let Me Tell You Something You Haven't Learned Yet, Something You Learn Only By Living Awhile. As You Get Older, You Find That Life Begins To Wear You Down. Doesn't Matter Who You Are Or What You Do, It Happens. Experience, Time, Events - They All Conspire Against You To Steal Away Your Energy, To Erode Your Confidence, To Make You Question Things You Wouldn't Have Given A Second Thought To When You Were Young. It Happens Gradually, A Chipping Away That You Don't Even Notice At First, And Then One Day It's There. You Wake Up And You Just Don't Have The Fire Anymore." He Smiled.

The Future Is An Ever-shifting Maze Of Possibilities Until It Becomes The Present. The Future I Have Shown You Tonight Is Not Yet Fixed. But It Is More Likely To Become So With The Passing Of Every Day Because Nothing Is Being Done To Turn It Aside. If You Would Change It, Do As I Have Told You.