Happy children do not seem to grow up to be writers.
Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done—that’s courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward.
Now it was done. He was free of Xanth forever. Free to make his own life, without being ridiculed or mothered or tempted. Free to be himself.Bink put his face in his hands and cried.
Dor woke again as dawn came. The sun had somehow gotten around to the east, where the land was, and dried off so that it could shine again.
Only in Xanth would parents see a dragon looming over their children and depart with confidence.
People talk– they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.
Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?Then, leave me to my foolishness.
A mortal person’s mind is like a wilderness, with a tremendous volume of decaying constructs and half-understood experience forming natural harbors for wild animal effects.
I think it’s a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely controlled by the soulless cretins known as publishers.
By all means. Swords have ever been the best servants of crazy men.
One day you’ll discover that the opinions of worthless people are worthless.
When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void.
In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it.