Do not start a story unless you have an ending in mind. You can change the story's ending if you wish, but you should always have a destination.
Gene WolfeYou never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.
Gene WolfeNo intellect is needed to see those figures who wait beyond the void of death - every child is aware of them, blazing with glories dark or bright, wrapped in authority older than the universe. They are the stuff of our earliest dreams, as of our dying visions. Rightly we feel our lives guided by them, and rightly too we feel how little we matter to them, the builders of the unimaginable, the fighters of wars beyond the totality of existence.
Gene Wolfe