People you don't like are pigheaded. Your friends are stubborn, or hold to their purpose.
I learned by reading an awful lot and by writing a half a million words of stuff nobody would do anything with except wrap old fish.
People were as they were, not not as he wished them to be.
I'm a social caterpillar. I am not a social butterfly
Fiction has to be plausible. All history has to do is happen.
I first tried a novel when I was 14. First finished one when I was 16. First started working on stuff that had a chance of being salable in my early 20s, then didn't write much fiction at all because I was in grad school.