You should know that my most important contribution was always in tailoring; coats, jackets, wool dresses… so few of which went into the magazines.
*Throwing bread out of door* AND STAY OUT!
Writing isn't just a job that stops at six thirty. . . It's a mad, sexy, sad, scary, ruthless, joyful, and utterly, utterly personal thing. There's not the writer and then me; there's just me. All of my life connects to the writing. All of it.
. . . Something we once loved, and love now, in the shape of a book. Maybe eBooks are going to take over, one day, but not until those whizzkids in Silicon Valley invent a way to bend the corners, fold the spine, yellow the pages, add a coffee ring or two and allow the plastic tablet to fall open at a favorite page.
You are worthy of love and respect. You are beautiful, gifted, and intelligent. Don't let the storm make you forget it.
Anything works, as long as you write it properly.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer showed the whole world, and an entire sprawling industry, that writing monsters and demons and end-of-the-world is not hack-work, it can challenge the best. Joss Whedon raised the bar for every writer - not just genre or niche writers, but every single one of us.
New customs, Though they be never so ridiculous (Nay, let em be unmanly), yet are followed.
When something bad happens, this often opens the ways for some good things to happen!
Hate war, but love the American Warrior.
I got my style from a lot of different people, even my style of reading, even Johnny Carson inspired me.