People you don't like are pigheaded. Your friends are stubborn, or hold to their purpose.

A horsefly can't do a horse much real damage, but it can drive it wild anyhow.

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.

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.

You count snouts,” Straha said. “Whichever side can persuade most snouts to join it prevails. It does not have to be clever. It does not have to be wise. It only needs to be popular.

I do first draft in longhand, which saves a lot of rewriting. I try to get a certain amount done each day. Don't always, but I try. Then I clean up in the rewrites.