You need to realize that most writing rules aren't laws, they're rules of thumb.

Writing a good query letter has very little to do with writing a good novel. But if you can't write the one, it makes it really hard to get the other published.

Abenthy gave me an appraising look. I'd been waiting for it. It was the look that said, "You don't sound as young as you look." I hoped he'd come to grips with it fairly soon. It gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one.

Anger can keep you warm at night, and wounded pride can spur a man to wondrous things.

Beer dulls a memory, brand sets it burning, but wine is the best for a sore heart's yearning.

All stories are true," Skarpi said. "But this one really happened, if that's what you mean.

Reading is professionally important for me to keep tuned in to what's being written in my genre, let's not lie. But that's not the reason I read. I read for my own emotional and mental health. If I stopped reading, I'd probably just die.