Politics is a dirty business, but if you do not do politics, politics will be done to you.

Moving around is good for creativity: the next line of dialogue that you desperately need may well be waiting in the back of the refrigerator or half a mile along your favorite walk.

There are no rules in writing. There are useful principles. Throw them away when they're not useful. But always know what you're throwing away.

It is better to write a bad first draft than to write no first draft at all.

In fantasy, impossible things exist. In science fiction, impossible things exist and can be understood by humans. In supernatural horror, impossible things exist and cannot live in peace with humans.

The great thing about revision is that it's your opportunity to fake being brilliant.

It's always good to hear that people you like are happy.

Unless you're writing for a humorous effect, elves or space aliens and all creatures who aren't human should at least be as strange as, oh, the French.

Women, on the other hand, had to wield their intellects like a scythe, hacking away against the stubborn underbrush of low expectations.

They turned their desks into a trigonometric war room, poring over equations scrawling ideas on blackboards, evaluating their work, erasing it, starting over.

For twelve school years, every morning, she had turned left out the front door to get to work. Now the taxi turned right, spiriting her off in the opposite direction.

Its as if you think you'd never findReason and the Sacred intertwined

This world is your mirror. Wherever you go, you see a reflection of your thoughts.

It happened. It was awful. You aren't perfect. That's all there is. Don't confuse your grief with guilt.

Farmers worry only during the growing season but town people worry all the time.

We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-dimensional, not just the wife or the mother.

Those who turn good organizations into great organizations are motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion for sheer unadulterated excellence for its own sake.

I will never be satisfied. Life is one constant search for the betterment for me.

If you don't have the best people you hurt everyone.

Alienation is a form of living death. It is the acid of despair that dissolves society.

One thing I do know, and that is, that neither hope, nor fear, belief, nor denial, can change the fact. It is as it is, and it will be as it must be.