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I have seen John Scalzi's pose-off picture. There are no words. There is only inarticulate whimpering.

Story was magic. Magic was story. Memory was also story, disparate events linked together in our mind to create a narrative.

I see words, I read them.

If we ruled the world, I guarantee you they never would have cancelled Firefly

You don't do what's right because you know it will work out. You do it because you know it's right.

Which reminds me, there's a vampire hand in your freezer's ice maker." Seeing my aghast expression, she added, "Don't worry. I double-bagged it.

Of course, once you had yanked Conan the Barbarian's sword out of a book to fight off a rabid weresquirrel, "impossible" lost a lot of its punch.

The more we narrow the definition of beauty, the more beauty we shut out of our lives.

That is a trial I must face," Veka said.
"No, that is a multiheaded snake thing, Jig snapped.

Those forced to make impossible choices are rarely loved. If it's approval and reputation you care about, then you have no place here.

Trust is a choice. Actually, trust is more of a desperate, hopeful guess based on limited information.

Do you know why happily ever after is a lie?" Snow asked. "Because life is change.

Smudge stood atop the water, burning as hot as I'd ever seen him and floating on a cushion of steam like a tiny, pissed-off hovercraft.

It's not like publishing is perfect. Far from it. The industry is struggling to adapt and survive, and it's incredibly frustrating trying to break in.

New rule: every fantasy author who doesn't treat horses like tireless hairy motorcycles automatically gets a Hugo.

Bullying is not okay. Period.

A zombie amusement park sounds like fun, but the health code violations alone are enough to turn your stomach.

There is no right choice. You chose. Your job now is to make the most of that choice.

That worked great! Thank you so much. What next?"
"I don't know. I didn't expect you to live through it."
"Oh.

Freedom of religion does not give you the right to physically or verbally assault people.

As was often the case, Magic just chuckled and kicked physics in the balls, leaving it groaning and wondering what just happened.

I read more books for research purposes, whether it's a fictionalized biography of Johannes Gutenberg or a stack of urban fantasies.

If you really want to kill a libriomancer, hook a bomb up to a big red button and tell him not to press it

I had said before that all stories were magic. It had never occurred to me that all magic was stories.

My name is Isaac Vainio," I said. "You smashed my library. Prepare to die."
Everything went better with Princess Bride references.

The life of an adventurer appeared to consist of roughly six parts boredom to one part stark terror, or so it seemed to Jig.

Two libriomancers had been disciplined for trying to get an early copy of the last Harry Potter book.

Bookstores, libraries ... they're the closest thing I have to a church.

I have a day job, which means my family isn't dependent on the writing income. So if I have an idea I like, I write it.

Forget about what goblins would do. Forget about what an adventurer would do. I need to figure out what Jig should do.

Find the stories you love, and don't ever let anyone tell you you're wrong for loving them. If

I was amused to note that even vampires obeyed the unwritten rules of elevator etiquette.

Prometheus had stolen fire from the gods and suffered the consequences. I had returned the gift of the gods, and the price had been my dreams.

Instead of Debbie Does Dallas, we get Gandalf Guts Goblins.

Look at the shiny magic thing trying to kill us, isn't it awesome?

Judge not, lest ye be punched in the face for being a self-righteous prick.

I've tried to write deep and serious. I spent years working to write a story that would make my writing group cry.

Any factual errors that remain are entirely the fault of Bob, who snuck into the offices at DAW to try to sabotage my book. I hate that guy.

Freedom of speech does not protect you from the consequences of saying stupid shit.
[Blog post, March 12, 2012]

Isaac, tell your girlfriend she can't bring weapons into holy-shit-your-spider's-on-fire!

Every libromancer had a first book. Etched more sharply into my memory than my first kiss, this book had been my magical awakening.

Like any child raised on tales of magical worlds beyond paintings and mirrors and wardrobes, I had yearned to enter Middle Earth, to reach through.