The great thing about revision is that it's your opportunity to fake being brilliant.

Politics is a dirty business, but if you do not do politics, politics will be done to you.

Moving around is good for creativity: the next line of dialogue that you desperately need may well be waiting in the back of the refrigerator or half a mile along your favorite walk.

The great thing about revision is that it's your opportunity to fake being brilliant.

It is better to write a bad first draft than to write no first draft at all.

It's always good to hear that people you like are happy.

Unless you're writing for a humorous effect, elves or space aliens and all creatures who aren't human should at least be as strange as, oh, the French.