That's what people need to remember about reviewers; opinions can be all over the spectrum, and you just need to find a reviewer whose tastes match your own.

Do you want Columbus to go across the ocean, or do you want to put a message in a bottle and hope that it lands somewhere? I'd rather have actual people be there. Whether they look like Americans or like the inhabitants of some other country, depends on who has the most drive.

Every spare second I would write, somehow. On my lunch hour, too.

Every life has a destiny... the trick is to discover it before then end of your life. Otherwise, you will have too many regrets.

There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the stars themselves begin to die.

I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is.

There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature.