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.

Short stories are designed to deliver their impact in as few pages as possible. A tremendous amount is left out, and a good short story writer learns to include only the most essential information.

A weak King must be what other Kings have been; a strong King is himself, and from then on the meaning of the name of King is changed.

I will never hurt you. I will always help you. If you are hungry Ill give you my food. If you are frightened I am your friend. I love you now. And love does not end.

It's about me, or people wouldn't be so anxious to keep me from knowing about it. The absence of information is information. ~ Ender

If you listen very carefully, you can hear the good fairy come in the night and leave our assignment for tomorrow.

It's simple. Nothing exists except in relation to something else.