You can get away with breaking all of the other rules at least once in a while, but you can't get away with breaking this one. Readers will accept almost anything from you if you don't make them feel they have wasted their time and money. Remember, you can bore readers in a lot of different ways. It doesn't necessarily take a dearth of action; too much action can get you the same result. Everything in writing, like in life, requires balance.

Nothing is lost that we do not first see as lost. Visions born of fear give birth to our failing. Visions born of hope give birth to our success. What is possible lives within us, and it only remains for us to discover it.

It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope.

Evil contained is not evil destroyed.

Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.

After all, you put a lot into creating a universe and everything that goes with it, and it seems a shame to use it only once.

I want you, as a reader, to experience what I experience, to let that other world, that imaginary world that I have created, tell you things about the real world.