Be what you are; it is better that way. --Dolph

When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour.

But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do.

Have a working spouse, because you won't earn a living from writing - not at first, if ever. My wife worked for years to support us.

That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.

I did not know at first that it would be a series; I discovered after the first novel that I had more to say about it, so I did another. And another, and then the readers demanded yet more.

Dor woke again as dawn came. The sun had somehow gotten around to the east, where the land was, and dried off so that it could shine again.