You can't write a novel all at once, any more than you can swallow a whale in one gulp. You do have to break it up into smaller chunks. But those smaller chunks aren't good old familiar short stories. Novels aren't built out of short stories. They are built out of scenes.

Where ideas are real and reality is shadow.

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

Take me home, he said silently to Graff. In my dream you said you loved me. Take me home

Ender stepped under the water and rinsed himself, took the sweat of combat and let it run down the drain. All gone, except they recycled it and we'll be drinking Bonzo's blood water in the morning. All the life gone out of it, but his blood just the same, his blood and my sweat, washed down in their stupidity or cruelty or whatever it was that made them let it happen.

Thank God for you, Ender. Thank God.

I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love.