Lord but I dislike poetry. How can anyone remember words that aren’t put to music? - Patrick Rothfuss

How do they feel about demons off in Atur?" he asked.
"Scared." My father tapped his temple. "All that religion makes their brains soft."

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

Fantasy is my favorite genre for reading and writing. We have more options than anyone else, and the best props and special effects. That means if you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you can do just that. Want to throw in a vampire and a lesbian unicorn while you're at it? Go ahead. Nothing's off limits. But the endless possibility of the genre is a trap. It's easy to get distracted by the glittering props available to you and forget what you're supposed to be doing: telling a good story. Don’t get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That’s a story. Handled properly, it’s more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.