The first draft of a bookโeven a long oneโshould take no more than three months, the length of a season.
Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.
Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness.
Nora Roberts is cool.
...writing fiction...is no job for intellectual cowards.
It might be that the biggest division in the world isn't men and women but folks who like cats and folks who like dogs" - (L.T.'s Theory of Pets)