Nobody cooks using just one ingredient. Why would you write using just one flavor of story?

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.

What do they do to students at the University who eavesdrop?” Bast asked curiously. “I haven’t the slightest idea. I was never caught. I think making you sit and listen to the rest of my story should be punishment enough.

When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

Practice makes the master.

But how awful would that be? How terrible to live surrounded by the stark, sharp, hollowness of things that simply were enough?

But sometimes the best help a person can find is helping someone else.