Choose your agent as carefully as you would choose your accountant or lawyer. Or dentist.
Our sins describe us, and our prohibitions describe our sins.
It's hard to know more about a person's life than what that person wants you to know.
Like Neanderthals, men prefer to hunt alone or, if in a pack, at the head of it. Women, whether in the field or in a campfire, are collaborative, and when they hunt...they work together.
It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check.
The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer.