The Awakening An Artist Must Be Ruthless,

Those Who Will Not Govern Themselves Are Condemned To Find Masters To Govern Over Them.

The Only Intercourse Possible Between The Knight And The Dragon Is Battle.

Don't Wait For Someone Else To Validate You. Validate Yourself.

A Contemporary Or Near-future Book Is Much Harder Because You Can't Fake The Facts. There Are People Alive Who Know Much More Than You Do About The Subject. You Have To Really Have Your Research Together - And Of Course No One Can Know Everything About A Topic.

One Thing I've Found In Any Project Is Almost Universally About Three Quarters Of The Way Through - Or Maybe A Little Father, Maybe Seventh Eighths On The Way Through - Any Project Will Explode.