Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.

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 only intercourse possible between the knight and the dragon is battle.

The athlete knows the day will never come when he wakes up pain-free. He has to play hurt.

You and I may only be mortals, with all the foolishness and fallibility that that state implies, but we're mortals made in the image of heaven. The gods can't do their work without us. So let's be bold, in their cause and in our own. It's our job, we humans, to make manifest that which is unmanifest-and to raise into consciousness, in this material dimension, that which had been known before only in heaven.

We're wrong if we think we're the only ones struggling with Resistance. Everyone who has a body experiences Resistance.

Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors.