Remember that your job as a practicing writer is to remember it's never going to be perfect on your first pass.

People with passion are people who will destroy - for a man's passion is not true until he proves how much he's willing to sacrifice for it.

That isn’t greatness. That’s just foolishness.

Never throw the first punch. If you have to throw the second, try to make sure they don't get up for a third.

You're a very difficult person to manipulate, you know." "Nonsense," he said. "You just have to promise me that I won't have to do a thing, and then I'll do anything you want." "Anything?" "Anything that doesn't require doing anything." "That's nothing, then." "Is it?" "Yes." "Well, that's something.

Control yourself. Become someone who can handle this.

So, when people try to give you some book with a shiny round award on the cover, be kind and gracious, but tell them you don't read "fantasy," because you prefer stories that are real. Then come back here and continue your research on the cult of evil Librarians who secretly rule the world.