If you want me to treat your ideas with more respect, get some better ideas.

When you're a kid all you want to do is be somewhere else.

I grew up in southern California in the 80s. Yes, I am a walking cliche.

Ultimately the first, best step in getting your work noticed is to write good work. If people don't engage in your writing, no amount of serialization or free downloads is going to matter. You have to write something worth reading, and often it takes time to get at that level.

Star Wars is not entertainment. Star Wars is George Lucas masturbating to a picture of Joseph Campbell and conning billions of people into watching the money shot.

Christianity is a fine religion and I wish more Christians practiced it.

As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that comes in handy with my writing. If I get bored writing something, I pity the people who will then try to read it.