Even After Sword Was Published,

It's Better To Die In Pursuit Of Your Dreams Than To Live A Life Without Hope.

We Should Not Be Less Than What We Are.

I Remember One Winter, When I Was About Five Or Six, I Spent Three Days With Another Boy, Tracking A Bobcat That Had Been Sighted In Another County Fifty Miles Away, But Which I Was Sure Had Come Into Our Neighborhood.

Growing Up, I Didn't Have A Lot Of Toys, And Personal Entertainment Depended On Individual Ingenuity And Imagination - Think Up A Story And Go Live It For An Afternoon.

My Breakthrough As A Reader Was When I Discovered The European Adventure Story Writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, To Name A Few.