Also not the kind of place to hide a server." "Is that another pun?" She asked. "No! I swear! I didn't mean that one." ~Shell Game, Kingdom Keepers #5

I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices in his or her body. We seek, through our profession, to get those voices onto paper.

The way you get better is putting words on the page and getting them behind you.

As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me severely, but only for the next 50 years. But I think it also allowed me to discipline myself to sit in the chair and be a writer, where one of the most needed qualities is patience.

Being right wasn't nearly as important as doing right.

Finn whispered, "What has a head, thorax, and abdomen, but stands six feet tall?" "A snowman?

Smee, you are a supreme idjit." "Aye, Cap'n.