One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war.

I am always in love.

I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before.

I don’t. I don’t want anybody else to touch you. I’m silly. I get furious if they touch you.

They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.

Try and write straight English; never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short time. I only use swear words, for example, that have lasted at least a thousand years for fear of getting stuff that will be simply timely and then go sour.

Writing is a hard business...but nothing makes you feel better.