You have to have talent to some extent - I certainly hope I have talent - but you have to have luck as well. Once you get that first shot, that will get you noticed for the rest of your books and that will give the rest of your books a better chance.
Care for the living. I'll weep for the dead later. - Perrin Aybara
The people seemed nearly ostentatious about minding their own business.
The only way was forward, whatever lay at the end.
The Wheel of Time and the wheel of a man's life turn alike without pity or mercy.
As the Wheel of Time turns, places wear many names. Men wear many names, many faces. Different faces, but always the same man. Yet no one knows the Great Pattern the Wheel weaves, or even the Pattern of an Age. We can only watch, and study, and hope.