Once you have a child, your heart is forever outside your body. I totally understand that now.
Society is not just the product of its individual members; it is also the product of its constituent groups.
It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune because abundance breaks more things than scarcity.
A firm is successful when the costs of directing employee effort are lower than the potential gain from directing.
Any system described by a power law [. . . ] has several curious effects. The first is that, by definition, most participants are below average.
One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction.
The transfer of [. . . ] capabilities from various professional classes to the general public is epochal.
I realized early in my career that precisely what one reader doesn't like is what another reader loves. Collectively, any writer's audience presents a mishmash of expectations that can never all be met. What one-tenth of my readership may not be crazy about the other nine-tenths savors. The moment you start altering a book or a painting or any type of art as if it's a public collaborative, you crucify its soul. I'd rather irritate a few people and delight a lot than touch no one. " ~ Karen Marie Moning
When I take on a design project, I have to jet from the bookstore to the hardware shop to the lamp store and back again just to collect a small portion of the many items I need to fill a home. But, when you hit the flea market, they're all right there. From booth to booth, you have the bases covered.
I relax and enjoy life. I know that whatever I need to know is revealed to me in the perfect time and space sequence.
I began writing The Cold Song in the months following my fathers death, when I felt this sense of loss, disappearance, of being right in the middle of life and wondering: What now? How to proceed?