Rennie didn't quite dare to answer back, but she looked a whole book and a couple of extra chapters.

Murphy is a writer's best friend, but you have to keep an eye on him, or he'll steal the silver.

I see you've decided to take my advice after all, Richard." Lady Wendall's amused voice said from somewhere above and behind him. "Marrying your ward is *exactly* the sort of usual scandal I had in mind: I wonder it didn't occur to me before.

One of the things everybody seems to want to ask writers is, "Where do you get your ideas?" When people ask me this, my usual response is, "Ideas are the easy part. The hard part is writing them down."

No proper princess would come out looking for dragons," Woraug objected. "Well I'm not a proper princess then!" Cimorene snapped. "I make cherries jubillee and I volunteer for dragons, and I conjugate Latin verbs-- or at least I would if anyone would let me. So there!

You can't force folks to have good sense, even if they're family. Maybe especially then.

Out here, it's better safe than sorry, because generally speaking, too much of the time sorry means you're dead.