If there is no willingness to use force to defend civil society, it's civil society that goes away, not force.

Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature.

So many problems are solved simply by knowing enough verbs.

Writers say many true things about their own experiences with publicity and promotion.

That's the great thing about doing good: Anyone can do it, any time, no waiting periods or batteries required.

Sometimes writers say true things about the overall nature of publicity, promotion, and the publishing industry; but alas, not always.

If you ask 20 different readers why they read, they will all be right.

If this power could be used for good, it wouldn't be this power.

Didn't need the user icon to know you're white and male.

I believe God put that itchy spot on our backs just exactly where we can't reach it in order to encourage us be nice to each other.

I have to go make books. Sorry about that.

Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions.

More men die of jealousy than of cancer.

When I'm older, I want to have my own workout clothes line, like leggings and cute jackets in bright and fun colors.

I love hanging out with people who make me forget to look at my phone.

We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.

I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.

The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.

The brain is like a TV set; when it goes blank, it's a good idea to turn off the sound.

Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.

There are two types of mistakes: mistakes of ambition and mistakes of sloth.