All you need to know about plotting is twofold. 1. Give your characters goals. 2. Don't let them reach those goals.

Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.

Fate is a future you didn't try hard enough to change.

Never having something is different than having something and losing it.

There's a word for a writer who never gives up: published.

If you can't be smart or funny, be brief.

Sorry to hear about your Dad." He shrugged. "He was seventy, and we always told him fast food would kill him." "Heart attack?" "He was hit by a Pizza Express truck.