You stole that from Tolkein. Use your own ideas.

(Fire and Hemlock)

...I realized you can actually influence people really rather profoundly, and of course, this feeds back into your duty to the book, and if you're not careful it completely hamstrings you, because you go backwards and forwards between these two things. This does make me very, very careful, particularly in the ( Read more... )

Anything really close to home is not, it seems to me, what a good book should be about.

"If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine."

"If only people then had read a little more fantasy, they would have known Hitler for a dark lord."