If there's any single talent a writer needs, it's persistence. If you can keep at your writing and you can learn as you write, you can tell any story you want to tell.

On the other hand, I was very much interested in the way people behaved, the human dance, how they seemed to move around each other. I wanted to play around with that.

But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.

When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.

The essentials are to learn to shape God with forethought, care, and work; to educate and benefit their community, their families and themselves; and to contribute to the fulfillment of the Destiny.

Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.

Souls! When have you seen your own soul - that you're so certain you have one?