Good description is a learned skill, one of the prime reasons why you cannot succeed unless you read a lot and write a lot. It’s not just a question of how-to, you see; it’s also a question of how much to. Reading will help you answer how much, and only reams of writing will help you with the how. You can learn only by doing.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

It was not fair, it was not fair, it was not fair. So cried his child's heart, and then his child's heart died a little. For that is also the way of the world.

A person could see a lot without ever leaving his own living room. Especially if he had the right tools.

Close your eyes and click your heals three times...because there's no place like Dome.

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.

What you don’t know, you can’t tell. Or made to tell.