A poet is a musician who can’t sing.
You do not know the first note of the music that moves me.
Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician’s curse.
It’s the questions we can’t answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think.
In brief, worldbuilding is different than setting in my opinion. Setting is a room. A backdrop. It’s scenery. But without good worldbuilding, you can’t have realistic feeling scenery. You can’t have cool, unique backdrops for your story.
You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way.
We all become what we pretend to be.
I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I’m like that. If I stop reading, I die.
That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.
We need time to relax and enjoy ourselves too, no matter how dark the story. The occasional humorous moment helps with that. That’s one of the things that Joss Whedon excels at in his storytelling.
Bones mend. Regret stays with you forever.
You lack the requisite spine and testicular fortitude to study under me.
Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.
For me the really cool parts of being an author don’t have anything to do with getting onto a bestseller list.
This is how deeply rooted stories are, folks. We crave them before we can walk, and we start telling them before we can talk.
I need you to breathe for me.
Humor is important for is pacing. If your whole book is just drama drama drama, it’s going to wear down the reader.
I was just wondering why you’re here.
Everything said, you couldn’t hope for a nicer day to have a half dozen ex-soldiers with hunting bows relieve you of everything you owned.
You know, I could have carried you.