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

Everybody has felt at one time or another that everyone else in the world had a better shot than they did, so when you engage that, you engage the reader, and I think you create a character that brings the reader more fully into the story.

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

Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.

Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.

No. This is right. I feel it. I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves. Fitz in Assassin's Quest

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.