Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done – that’s courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward.
Evil can never touch the person who refuses to accept it.
Writers pay a lot of attention to wordage, because some publishers seem to care more about length than about quality and will automatically reject novels that don’t fit their narrow standards of length – or will chop out extra wordage to make a novel fit.
I have, as may be apparent, not much respect for editors as a class.
Polishing: a useful lesson for the hopeful writer. You say your tormented prose doesn’t read as well as mine? Neither does mine, at first!
One day you’ll discover that the opinions of worthless people are worthless.
When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void.