To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due.

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

On the whole, anything that gets you writing and keeps you writing is a good thing. Anything that stops you writing is a bad thing.

The best advice I can give on this is, once it's done, to put it away until you can read it with new eyes. Finish the short story, print it out, then put it in a drawer and write other things. When you're ready, pick it up and read it, as if you've never read it before. If there are things you aren't satisfied with as a reader, go in and fix them as a writer: that's revision.

Her other mother smiled brightly and the hair on her head drifted like plants under the sea.

I would not wish to marry someone who had already been married. It would be,' she opined, 'like having someone else break in one's own pony.

You don't get heaven or hell. Do you know the only reward you get for being Batman? You get to be Batman.