"If you don't like my books, don't read them. There's no law. But don't try to stop other people from reading them."

"I am not interested in being a guru. I'm just a writer."

"I write fantasy and science fiction because I want to describe the world as I see it, not as it is supposed to be."

"We are the species that tells stories."

"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."