Things don't really impress me. Memories impress me. It's not the toys, it's the people.

Writing can be a tough gig. Whenever you do something in which you put yourself out there - if that becomes the focus of your life, you miss the point of living. You've really got to get the grounding of family and the things that are important in your life and make that your focus.

Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.

I've always been a fighter. If you tell me I can't, I'll die trying to prove you wrong.

In the past, TSR and now Wizards of the Coast have asked me to do game stats for my characters, and I'm never comfortable doing that. It's all relative after all.

Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.