Trust your luck, Taran Wanderer. But don't forget to put out your nets!

Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.

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Go back' Taran shouted at the top of his voice.'Have you lost your wits?' Eilonwy, for it was she, half-halted. She had tucked her plaited hair under a leather helmet. The Princess of Llyr smiled cheerfully at him. 'I understand you're upset,' she shouted back, 'but that's no cause to be rude.' She galloped on. For a time, Taran could not believe he had really seen her.

Morgant?" Taran asked, turning a puzzled glance to Gwydion. "How can there be honor for such a man?" "It is easy to judge evil unmixed," replied Gwydion. "But, alas, in most of us good and bad are closely woven as the threads on a loom; greater wisdom than mine is needed for the judging.

After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published.

Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.