Fenworth nodded. "Yes, yes. Urgent, deadly, insidious. The world is in peril and we must rise against evil." The old wizard released the general and patted him on the shoulder. "Tea and cake first, don't you think?


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K. A. APPLEGATE
I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the sympho...
K. A. APPLEGATE
I've got to believe I'm the first person to win the Newbery who has written a Harlequin roma...
K. A. APPLEGATE
Stan is a rescue Chihuahua mix. He was the role model for Bob, the dog in 'Ivan.' The drawin...
K. A. APPLEGATE
One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is...
K. A. APPLEGATE
When I was a child, going to a circus with wild animal acts was a rite of passage. These days, it...
K. A. APPLEGATE
I love any excuse to come to New York - when it's not February.
K. A. APPLEGATE
I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and...
K. A. APPLEGATE
I really love writing, but I am very easily distracted: my two cats fighting, a rainbow, a TV show.....
K. A. APPLEGATE
As a species, we can at times be dimwitted and cruel. But we're also capable of learning.
K. A. APPLEGATE
Hunger and homelessness aren't things we always want to talk about.
K. A. APPLEGATE
I grew up with a menagerie of dogs, cats, gerbils - not to mention three younger siblings.
K. A. APPLEGATE
I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When anim...
K. A. APPLEGATE
Technically, I've learned that having good legs and wind is good for being on stage. You have to...
LOUIS C. K.
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might ...
J. K. ROWLING
Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON
The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.
J. K. ROWLING
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
J. K. ROWLING
It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
J. K. ROWLING
Coincidences are spiritual puns.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON
What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does.
J. K. ROWLING
The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understandin...
J. K. ROWLING
It's hard out here for a fantasy writer, after all; there's all these 'rules' I'...
N. K. JEMISIN
Reconciliations are for after the violence has ended.
N. K. JEMISIN
Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo...
N. K. JEMISIN
I don't really understand why so many fantasy writers choose to focus on worlds that just seem s...
N. K. JEMISIN
With epic fantasy, there is a tendency for it to be quintessentially conservative in that its job is...
N. K. JEMISIN
It's human nature that we come in our own flavours, and it doesn't make any sense to write a...
N. K. JEMISIN
It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and ...
N. K. JEMISIN
Actual Victorian mores and politics were a reaction to a specific series of historical events, techn...
N. K. JEMISIN
I think most fiction focuses on uncomfortable settings because that's interesting.
N. K. JEMISIN
As a black woman, I have no particular interest in maintaining the status quo. Why would I? The stat...
N. K. JEMISIN
Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can b...
N. K. JEMISIN
This is magic we're talking about. It's supposed to go places science can't, defy logic,...
N. K. JEMISIN