If you can quit, then quit. If you can't quit, you're a writer.

There is no pain greater than this; not the cut of a jagged-edged dagger nor the fire of a dragon's breath. Nothing burns in your heart like the emptiness of losing something, someone, before you truly have learned of its value.

Never confuse honor with stupidity!

Station is the paradox of the world of my people, the limitation of our power within the hunger for power. It is gained through treachery and invites treachery against those who gain it. Those most powerful in Menzoberranzan spend their days watching over their shoulders, defending against the daggers that would find their backs. Their deaths usually come from the front." -Drizzt Do'Urden

No one will ever write a fantasy novel better than The Hobbit.

I'm trying to make all the characters change and grow, or regress.

...a third [of three] had died in his bunk of natural causes--for a dagger in the heart quite naturally ends one's life.