I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.

Make friends. Be a leader. Kiss butts if you have to, but if the other guys despise you-you know what I mean?

If you give orders and explain nothing, you might get obedience, but you'll get no creativity. If you tell them your purpose, then when your original plan is shown to be faulty, they'll find another way to achieve your goal. Explaining to your men doesn't weaken their respect for you, it proves your respect for them.

Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth." -Taleswapper

There was no doubt now in Ender's mind. There was no help for him. Whatever he faced, now and forever, no one would save him from it. Peter might be scum, but Peter had been right, always right; the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.

The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.

yesterday someone sent a message that was signed GOD! bernard said. really? dap said. i didn't know he was signed onto the system