Regarding the creative: never assume you're the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you're masterful.

The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.

Authors must spend months, years making fantasy believable in a single work while reality runs rampant and complete chaos elsewhere.

Regarding the creative: never assume you're the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you're masterful.

If you treat your characters like people, they'll reward you by being fully developed individuals.

But people in a small town tend to do a lot of talking, even when they don’t know what they’re talking about.

A migraine is the cockblock of writing.