What you need to remember is that there’s a difference between lecturing about what you know and using it to enrich the story. The latter is good. The former is not.

you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.

Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.

The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.

Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.

The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.

To write is human, to edit is divine.

If I am the pawn of the gods, it is because they know me so well, not because they make my mind up for me.

They were not my friends, after all. They were just the people I went to school with.

Don't be discouraged by people who tease you out of your dreams. What you have in your heart is bigger than what they have on their lips!

Nowadays, I dont have expectations, and this way she beats them all.

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

It takes a wise man to handle a lie. A fool had better remain honest.

I don't believe in luck. We make our own good fortune.

The Church knows nothing of a sacredness of war. The Church which prays'Our Father'asks God only for peace.

Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.

Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.