What You Write Chooses You.

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.

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.

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.

For A Writer, Its Very Attractive To Stay In One World For A Time.

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