There Is Truth In All

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.

This Much Have I Learned: A Man's Life Weighs More Than Glory, And A Price Paid In Blood Is A Heavy Reckoning.

For Man To Be Worthy Of Any Rank, He Must Strive First To Be A Man.

It Was 1943. The U.s. Had Already Entered World War Ii, So I Decided To Join The Army.

My Family Pleaded With Me To Forget Literature And Do Something Sensible, Such As Find Some Sort Of Useful Work.