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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 Farmer Or A King--every Man Is A Hero If He Strives More For Others Than For Himself Alone. Once You Told Me That The Seeking Counts More Than The Finding. So, Too, Must The Striving Count More Than The Gain.

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.

The Prydain Companion Is More Than A Quick Reference Or Handy Glossary, Though It Is All Of That As Well. Instructive, Certainly. But, Like Any Good Companion, A Pleasure To Be With Over A Long Period Of Time.

You Must Know Nothing Before You Can Learn Something, And Be Empty Before You Can Be Filled. Is Not The Emptiness Of The Bowl What Makes It Useful? As For Laws, A Parrot Can Repeat Them Word For Word. Their Spirit Is Something Else Again. As For Governing, One Must First Be Lowest Before Being Highest.

I Came To Fantasy Fairly Late. For Some Ten Years, I Had Been Happily Writing Fiction And Non-fiction For Adults. But I Always Loved Fantasy, Whether For Adults Or Young People; And At That Particular Point In My Life, I Wanted To Try It, To Understand It, As Part Of The Process Of Learning To Be A Writer. The Results Were Beyond Anything I Could Have Foreseen. As I've Said Often And Elsewhere, It Was The Most Creative And Liberating Experience Of My Life.