Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.

You are a writer when you tell yourself you are. No one else's opinion matters. Screw them. You are when you say you are.

I believe in previous lives and the Muse—and that books and music exist before they are written and that they are propelled into material being by their own imperative to be born, via the offices of those willing servants of discipline, imagination and inspiration whom we call artists.

On the field of The Self stand a knight and a dragon. You are the knight. Resistance is the dragon.

The opposite of fear," Dienekes said, "is love.

The last element in drama is high stakes. War, of course, is life and death - survival, not only for the story's characters, but often for the society itself. That's why I'm drawn to stories that are built around wars, even if they're not technically "war stories."

The professional conducts his business in the real world. Adversity, injustice, bad hops and rotten calls, even good breaks and lucky bounces all comprise the ground over which the campaign must be waged. The field is level, the professional understands, only in heaven.