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

It's easier to write about heartbreak after you've had your heart broken. You have more material to draw from, you can extrapolate from your own experiences and make reasonable assumptions about how your characters would feel and act.

When you love something, you have to make sure it loves you back, or you'll bring about no end of trouble chasing it.

Ambrose, your presence is the horseshit frosting on the horseshit cake that is the admissions interview process.

Hespe's mouth went firm. She didn't scowl exactly, but it looked like she was getting all the pieces of a scowl together in one place, just in case she needed them in a hurry.

A lot of new writers assume you have to know the where the story is going and that it flows out as molten gold. But really, sometimes you think you are going to one place, but then you decide that is dumb idea. Then you go somewhere else and it is a worse idea. But then you switch again and you might have a beautiful accident.

I have no balance. My life is a hot mess.