Drowning was bad enough. But drowning sad and sober, that's too cruel.

The best writing advice I had was [in] ‘Heinlein’s Rules for Writers’ by (American science fiction author) Robert A. Heinlein. His first rule is that you must write, and I was already doing that, but his second rule is, ‘You must finish what you write,’ and that had a big impact on me.

Drowning was bad enough. But drowning sad and sober, that's too cruel.

And what lesson can we draw from Volantene history? If you want to conquer the world, you best have dragons.

The world is full of cravens who pretended to be heroes.

My mother raised me to be bold. If I do not go, I will spend the rest of my life wondering what might have happened if I had." "If you do go, the rest of your life may be too short for wondering. - Asha & Rodrick

With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the special effects guy and the lighting technician: I'm all of that. So if it's good or bad, it's all up to me.