Take what you have learned, and move on.

Reading is important. Books are important. Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.)

People pursue things. As soon as they have them they run away from them.

Writer advice... Write. Finish things. Go for walks. Read a lot & outside your comfort zone. Stay interested. Daydream. Write.

Often you will discover that the harder you work, and the more wisely you work, the luckier you get. But there is luck, and it helps.

Richard began to understand darkness: darkness as something solid and real, so much more than a simple absence of light. He felt it touch his skin, questing, moving, exploring: gliding through his mind. It slipped into his lungs, behind his eyes, into his mouth.

I have heard the languages of apocalypse, and now I shall embrace the silence.