Trust Your Luck, Taran Wanderer.

He Will Not Succeed In This," Taran Said. "somehow, We Must Find A Way To Escape. We Dare Not Lose Hope." "i Agree Absolutely," Fflewddur Answered. "your General Idea Is Excellent; It's Only The Details That Are Lacking.

Is There Not Glory Enough In Living The Days Given To Us? You Should Know There Is Adventure In Simply Being Among Those We Love And The Things We Love, And Beauty, Too.

We Hold Each Other's Lives In Our Open Hands, Not In Clenched Fists.

Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, And So Many Others Were My Dearest Friends And Greatest Teachers.

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.