The library is a place of mental diversion, learning, and comfort for anyone who has an intellect. I know of no librarian who when asked for food for the mind will offer a stone. What more could anyone ask?

One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.

No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to thousands, there are many familiar aspects.

Keep writing, because not only does practice improve skill, it gives you more chances to score on the market. I did that for eight years before making my first sale.

I maintain an ongoing survey of Internet Publishing and self publishing, so that it is now possible for any writer with a book to get it published at nominal cost or free, and to have it on sale at booksellers like Amazon.com.

If the fiercest conglomerate monsters had souls, with all that implied, who could condemn them as evil?

Bink knew the dolphin only from old pictures; it was a kind of magic fish that breathed air instead of water.