I like airplanes. I like anywhere that isn’t a proper place. I like in betweens.
There are a number of paths that lead to this place. I have been avoiding them for some small time, now.
The only advice I can give you is what you’re telling yourself. Only, maybe you’re too scared to listen.
Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants.
It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism.
It seems like every time I agree to work with a video game company they go out of business. I stopped because I was starting to feel guilty.
When angels go bad they are worse than anyone else. Remember Lucifer used to be an angel.
The world is always ending for someone.
I think I would rather be a man than a god. We don’t need anyone to believe in us. We just keep going anyhow. It’s what we do.
All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories.
You see, the outcome of the battle is unimportant. What matters is the chaos, and the slaughter.
There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.
If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you’ll never be a novelist.
I love the auditioning process. I love working with the technical guys. I absolutely love the editing room. That was completely fascinating to me, working with an editor in crafting the thing into something you had in your head.
Let her tell stories and dance in the rain, somersault, tumble and run, her joys must be high as her sorrows are deep, let her grow like a weed in the sun.
I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination.
Books smell and feel better. They have that wonderful thingness of turning the pages.
Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.
Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, do it.
Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You’ll find what you need to find. Just read.