Believe it or not, I don't collaborate with women, though my agent and editor are both females. For the most part, they do little editing on my characters.
It's the Simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that.
The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.
For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have.
An old-shoe lover loves loving old shoes.
Anybody can do anything he wants to if he wants to do it badly enough.
You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out.
Influence is exerted by every human being from the hour of birth to that of death.
The world is full of warfare 'twixt the evil and the good;I watched the battle from afar as one who understoodThe shouting and confusion, the bloody, blundering fight-How few there are that see it clear, how few that wage it right!
I was kicked out of school because of my attitude. I was not assimilating. So I went to work, taking any jobs I could get.
Oh no, Nick" Jaime said in tones of supremely unconvincing shock, "how could you? When my back was turned for one momement. And my food was so delicious.