Ransomware is more about manipulating vulnerabilities in human psychology than the adversary's technological sophistication

In fact, one could argue that the skill of the fiction writer boils down to the ability to exploit intensity.

Structure is translation software for your imagination.

Every hour you spend writing is an hour you don't spend worrying about your writing.

Status, worry and comparison are ways to madness, not victory.

Superb historical romance, with a spiritual theme woven seamlessly throughout. I much enjoyed The Covered Deep and look forward to more from its author!

Think of it as the Doorway of No Return. The feeling must be that your lead character, once she passes through, cannot go home again until the major problem of the plot is solved.

Write like you're in love. Edit like you're in charge.

A writing teacher once told me that the most successful movies and books were simple plots about complex characters. You should be able to articulate your concept in a couple of lines.

There's a perilous word fiction writers need to watch out for. The word is 'had.'

The semi-colon is a burp, a hiccup. It's a drunk staggering out of the saloon at 2 a.m., grabbing your lapels on the way and asking you to listen to one more story.

Some of the toughest ayaat in the Quran have Allah's name "ar-Rahman" in them to make it clear that just because Allah is the Most Merciful, it doesn't mean He's not going to carry out justice.

John Legend is a cool guy. He likes to chill, is easy to talk to and hang out with. He's also inspiring on a musical level.

I believe if you are doing something like competing, like motor racing, you either do well or forget it.

Every country needs its heroes, and we must follow them.

A huge amount of what goes on in the Middle East has to do with people being fed really bad information.

I've gone on record to say that I'm proud of the PC version of Daikatana and I stand behind that.

I think that one of the questions that I asked of myself in later years was to this point of the political directive.

If you have a dog or a cat, you know how developed they can be. How sensitive, how aware. They suffer. We all do.

The hope of heaven under troubles is like wind and sails to the soul.

While they danced they came over them the weariness with the world, the melancholy, the pity one for the other, which is the exultation of love.