Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.

History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

When both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril.

I never confuse the cost of something with its value

Every writer knows a lot more about their characters and story than actually makes it onto the page.

That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.

When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.