Very little worth knowing is taught by fear.

Start writing sooner. Don't wait for permission. Don't hesitate.

Ah, Catylast, can it be that you do not see all the changes you have made? Some by your resignation and acceptance of circumstance, some by your wild struggles. You say that you hate change, but you *are* change. The Fool in Fool's Fate

Very little about being a writer is signing an autograph. It's sitting in a room and writing. Getting it out.

For the weakest has but to try his strength to find it, and then he shall be strong.

In real life, things don't all end at the nice same place. To keep the story real, there has to be kind of a ragged edge at the end of a novel.

learning is never wrong. Even learning how to kill isn't wrong. Or right. It's just a thing to learn, a thing I can teach you. That's all.