I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer.

You see with your eyes. This means you can be misled by charm, by outward appearance. By webs of glamour, by surface pretences. I do not see with my eyes. I see good and I see evil. Nothing else.

I've known ambitious people with no aptitude for the thing they did. Most of whom, rather terrifyingly, tended to succeed.

We wrapped our dreams in words and patterned the words so that they would live forever, unforgettable.

I already killed you once today, what does it take to teach some people?

The biggest pitfall to avoid is not writing. Not writing is really, really easy to do, especially if you're a young writer. The hope that elves will come in the night and finish it for you, is a very common one to have. That is my main recommendation - you have to write, and you have to finish what you write and beyond that, it's all detail.

I never fell. I don't care what they say. I'm still doing my job, as I see it.