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There is no faster way to harden my determination than to assume I will fail at something.

There is nothing in the world so enticing as that which you have been told you may not have.

Matriarchy is a time-honored staple for any writer looking to invent an exotic society.

But coming to terms with one's sorrow is one thing; sharing it with strangers is quite another.

I'm the sort of person who, once I put dragons into the real world, feels obliged to think about how their presence would have changed history.

That should be my epitaph when I die 'she did not have to do it'.

If you wish, gentle reader, you may augment your mental tableau with dramatic orchestral accompaniment.

I therefore had only enough fear to make myself terrified - not enough to turn back

Good manners warred with curiosity, and lost.

'Fire and Hemlock' is the reason I'm a writer.

diseases of an unromantic sort,

I honestly think anthropology is one of the most useful fields a fantasy writer can study, more so even than history.

Given what I do to my characters, I'm not sure I'd want to meet any of them.

Nudity, I find, rapidly becomes boring when it is not treated as scandalous.

All hail that bane of the upper class, a scene. The spectre of being publicly shamed

One does not cease to treasure a gem simply because one owns another that is larger.

I honestly cannot tell whether you are the most practical women I have ever met or the most deranged."
"Why can't I be both

I'm a writer; as soon as I imagine what would happen if I found the fountain of youth, it turns into a dystopia in my head.

I didn't really distinguish between genre and not-genre as a kid, until I made the transition to adult fantasy via Terry Brooks.

The dragon within my heart stirred, shifting her wings, as if remembering they could be used to fly.

The truth is that real history was a lot more complicated than our popular understandings lead us to believe.

Once we love, we cannot revoke it,' she said. 'We can only glory in what it brings
pain as well as joy, grief as well as hope.

My mood depends heavily on what happens to me right after I get up.

(On no trip before or since have I carried more alcohol than undergarments.)

I find that respectability grows wearisome after a time, when one is accustomed to being a disgrace.

I have never attempted to hide that I have had two husbands in my life.
I have, however, neglected to mention that in between them, I had a wife.

When I'm working on a novel, I generally do write every day, but in between those marathons, I take breaks. My brain needs time to recharge.

At no point did I form the conscious intention of founding an ad hoc university in my sitting room. It happened, as it were, by accident.

For even the best artwork is a static thing of the eye alone, and words are by their nature linear.

I'd love to see more novels and short stories where the characters have their own folklore that isn't the Plot-Bearing Prophecy of Doom.

I chose my pen name when I was ten, because I knew even then that my legal name would be more trouble than it was worth.

It is not easy to fling oneself down stairs in a skirt; there is always the risk that you will tangle your legs and go headlong. But I made it.

More shouts, and then my father was there, staring down at me in horror: the minor pagan god, appalled at what his worshiper had done.