Any Fool Can Tell A Story. Take

Every Man Is A Hero If He Strives More For Others Than For Himself Alone.

Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, And So Many Others Were My Dearest Friends And Greatest Teachers.

Using The Device Of An Imaginary World Allows Me In Some Strange Way To Go To The Central Issues - It's One Of Many Ways To Express Feelings About Real People, About Real Human Relationships.

Behind One Truth There Is Always Yet Another.

I Came To Fantasy Fairly Late. For Some Ten Years, I Had Been Happily Writing Fiction And Non-fiction For Adults. But I Always Loved Fantasy, Whether For Adults Or Young People; And At That Particular Point In My Life, I Wanted To Try It, To Understand It, As Part Of The Process Of Learning To Be A Writer. The Results Were Beyond Anything I Could Have Foreseen. As I've Said Often And Elsewhere, It Was The Most Creative And Liberating Experience Of My Life.