Each book needs a good beginning and a good ending. People get pissed off when you don't close things off properly at the end.

There are two sure ways to lose a friend, one is to borrow, the other to lend.

Why are you smiling?' 'I'm relieved,' I said honestly. 'I was worried I'd given myself cadmium poisoning, or I had some mysterious disease. This is just someone trying to kill me.

Language is inexorably tied to power and understanding. And power and understanding are the roots of magic. Just the act of writing something down is a magical act.

Each book needs a good beginning and a good ending. People get pissed off when you don't close things off properly at the end.

When left to its own devices it tends to make me look as if I’ve been set afire.

It's hard for a newbie author to get noticed.