Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.

Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.

Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.

She wasn't the only one to be physically morphed by reader expectation. Miss Havisham was now elderly whether she liked it or not, and Sherlock Holmes wore a deerstalker and smoked a ridiculously large pipe. The problem wasn't just confined to the classics. Harry Potter was seriously pissed off that he'd have to spend the rest of life looking like Daniel Radcliffe.

...the landscape inside Lord of the Rings was so stunning and so stupendous that it could be absorbed as a form of nourishment.

You many have noticed I have a temper ... but when I calmed down, I realized that this world, blighted and imperfect as it is, would be better with you in it.

Cats aren't really friendly, they're just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction.