You must learn to be three people at once: writer, character, and reader.

Anything said in upper-crust British automatically sounded intelligent.

Every paragraph should accomplish two goals: advance the story, and develop your characters as complex human beings.

There are two wrong reactions to a rejection slip: deciding it's a final judgment on your story and/or talent, and deciding it's no judgment on your story and/or talent.

Religious reverence for one's own job, even if the job is worth doing, is a sexual turnoff.

Characterization is not divorced from plot, not a coat of paint you slap on after the structure of events is already built. Rather characterization is inseparable from plot.

Technology is Darwinian. It spreads. It evolves. It adapts. The most dangerous wipes out the less fit.