In The Race Of Men Is Much

Child, Child, Do You Not See? For Each Of Us Comes A Time When We Must Be More Than What We Are.

There's This Huge Number Of Desperate People.

If The Pull Of The Outside World Is Strong, There Is Also A Pull Towards The Human. The Cat May Disappear On Its Own Errands, But Sooner Or Later, It Returns Once Again For A Little While, To Greet Us With Its Own Type Of Love.

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.

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.