My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.

Keep out of this,” Lucian said. “I’m not smiting anybody.””You’re showing mercy.” Catch-a-Tick nodded. “That’s heroic, too. But not as good as smiting.

I can’t make sense out of that girl,” he said to the bard, “Can you?” “Never mind,” Fflewddur said, “We aren’t really expected to.

Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.

“He loved her…It was noble of him. It was beautiful.”-“It was stupid.

Miss Vesper Holly has the digestive talents of a goat and the mind of a chess master. She is familiar with half a dozen languages and can swear fluently in all of them. She understands...

The ocean filled the footprints where a boy and cat had stood.

There is an exuberance in good fantasy quite unlike the most exalted moments of realistic fiction. Both forms have similar goals; but realism walks where fantasy dances.

Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.

Until the thirst for power parched his throat, he was a fearless and noble lord.

Two things never mix: one is enchantments and the other is meddling with them.

My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.

Forgive me….I called you an idiot. I spoke too hastily. You are not. Had I given it more thought, I would have called you a scoundrel.

Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you’ll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.

It is beyond any man’s wisdom to judge the secret heart of another… for in it are good and evil mixed.

I can’t imagine why knowledge, truth and love should be so much of a secret

Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues – it’s one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships.

Trust your luck, Taran Wanderer. But don’t forget to put out your nets!

When imagination fails, compassion and humaneness dwindle and atrophy along with it. Unleavened by imagination, the variety and richness of life turn into flat abstractions; people become objects to be manipulated — with the social...

There’s this huge number of desperate people.

I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.

For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.

Long ago I yearned to be a hero without knowing, in truth, what a hero was. Now, perhaps, I understand it a little better. A grower of turnips or a shaper of clay, a Commot...

The muse in charge of fantasy wears good, sensible shoes.

King Arthur was one of my heroes – I played with a trash can lid for a knightly shield and my uncle’s cane for the sword Excalibur.

My luck’s no greater than yours or any man’s. You need only sharpen your eyes to see your luck when it comes, and sharpen your wits to use what falls into your hands.

I only suggest to you: Will you dwell on killing this man? You wish for revenge? If you do, he has already killed you by slow poison. So, let it go. Why waste your time?...

When I was discharged, I attended the University of Paris and met a beautiful Parisian girl, Janine. We soon married and eventually returned to the States.

…Writings can be stolen, or changed, or used for evil purposes. But isn’t the risk worth taking? The more people who share knowledge, the greater safeguard for it. Isn’t there more danger in ignorance than...

Is a man truly what he see himself to be?”Only if what he sees is true.

Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.

Hope is an essential thread in the fabric of all fantasies, an Ariadne’s thread to guide us out of the labyrinth … Human beings have always needed hope, and surely now more than ever.

My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.