That's what courage is. Taking your disappointments and your failures, your guilt and your shame, all the wounds received and inflicted, and sinking them in the past. Starting again. Damning yesterday and facing tomorrow with your head held high. Times change. It's those that see it coming, and plan for it, and change themselves to suit, that prosper.

I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn to stop making them.

I think the further away you get from completing a book, the more responses you see to it from readers, the more your own tastes and opinions shift and the more you start to see things you could have written differently in the detail, or done differently on the broader scale of plot and character.

Rules are for children. This is war, and in war the only crime is to lose.

You have to learn to love the small things in life, like a hot bath. You have to love the small things, when you have nothing else

Love is a fine cushion to rest upon, but only hate can make you a better person.

More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.