Agents and publishers only want one thing – good writing.
The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.
I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.
You see? I know where every single book used to be in the library. She pointed to the shelf opposite. Over there was Catch-22, which was a hugely popular fishing book and one of a series, I believe.
So my humor, I’d say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It’s an interesting mix.
Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.
The Kingdom of Hereford was unique in the Ununited Kingdoms for having driving tests based on maturity, not age, much to the chagrin of a lot of males, some of whom were still failing to make the grade at thirty-two.
Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.
A good butler should save his employer’s life at least once a day.
Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.
Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.
Goodness is weakness, pleasantness is poisonous, serenity is mediocrity and kindness is for losers. The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts – and let’s face it, I am considered something of an expert in this field – is purely for their own sake. Monetary gain is all very well, but it dilutes the taste of wickedness to a lower level that is obtainable by almost anyone with an overdeveloped sense of avarice. True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good –.
2.5.03.02.005: Generally speaking, if you fiddle with something, it will break. Don’t.
We try to make art perfect because we never manage it in real life.
Troll Wars were like Batman movies: both were repeated at regular intervals, featured expensive hardware, and were broadly predictable.
There is no problem on earth that can’t be ameliorated by a hot bath and a cup of tea.
Good evening,” said the barman. “Why is a raven like a writing desk?” “Because Poe wrote on both?
Stay close, do what I say and make as many mistakes as you want – just never the same one twice.
The only way to write is to write. Writers write. And when they’ve written, they write some more.
We all aspire to be ourselves, an original character in a litany of fiction so vast that we know we cannot.