We’re all entitled to a little stupidity now and then. – Beldin.
Now’s the time to be alive – to see it all happen, to be a part of it. That makes the blood race, and each breath is an adventure.
Keep working. Keep trying. Keep believing. You still might not make it, but at least you gave it your best shot. If you don’t have calluses on your soul, this isn’t for you. Take up knitting instead.
Don’t be afraid to discard work you know isn’t up to standard. Don’t save junk, just because it took you a long time to write it.
As soon as a friendship passed a certain point – some obscure and secret boundary – a woman quite automatically became overwhelmed by a raging compulsion to complicate things.
When ignorance is bliss, there’s folly in wisdom.
But there’s a world beyond what we can see and touch, and that world lives by its own laws. What may be impossible in this very ordinary world is very possible there, and sometimes the boundaries between the two worlds disappear, and then who can say what is possible and impossible?
Now do you see why war irritates me? It’s always the same. A lot of people get killed, but in the end, the whole thing is settled at the conference table. The notion of having the conference first doesn’t seem to occur to people.
Someday I’d like to see something rise up out of the earth –just for the sake of variety.
Young people, however, tend to ignore the customs of their elders. Adolescent rebellion has been responsible for all manner of absurd costumes. The more ridiculous a certain fashion is, the more adolescents will cling to it.
Everything is idiocy if you choose to look at it in the proper perspective.
Consistency is the defense of a small mind.
If you’re going to maintain any kind of self-respect, you’re going to have to keep secrets from yourself.
Vanity’s ridiculous, be we all fall prey to it from time to time.
It’s the nature of man to ask questions. – Belgarath.
Isn’t it odd how the little things can change a man’s entire life?
It’s one of the advantages of being a woman. I get to do all sorts of unfair things, and you have to accept them because you’re too polite not to. – Polgara.
Listen to the way people talk. If your characters sound real the rest is easy.
I wrote a novel for my degree, and I’m very happy I didn’t submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.
I’m never going to be in danger of getting the Nobel Prize for literature.