What are the three most important rules of the chemist?" This I knew from Ben. "Label clearly. Measure twice. Eat elsewhere..

You see, women are like fires, like flames. Some women are like candles, bright and friendly. Some are like single sparks, or embers, like fireflies ….

Whenever you write a character, you want to make them themselves, you want to make them unique. You don't want fifty characters in your book and they….

Just handle the books gently and you’ll get along fine..

Then I felt something inside me break and music began to pour out into the quiet. My fingers danced; intricate and quick they spun something gossamer….

Humor is hard, hard, hard. And if you fail with humor, you don't fail halfway. You drop the ball humor-wise and everyone notices..

Barbarian that I am, I had eaten all of it. It had tasted quite nice too. Still, I took note of this fact and resigned myself to throw away half of a….

We are more than the parts that form us..

Knowing your own ignorance is the first step to enlightenment..

He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places..

I was pretty poor for a long time. Not *poor* poor. But college student poor. I lived for most of my adult life living on student wages, then after I….

I think authors are just realizing there's no real reason to feel limited to a narrow set of genre rules in their writing. There's no reason a myster….

There were two sets of double doors leading out of the antechamber, one marked STACKS and the other TOMES. Not knowing the difference between the two….

Death was like an unpleasant neighbor. You didn’t talk about him for fear he might hear you and decide to pay a visit..

Soft fantasy worlds have a much looser cause-and-effect relationship. Alchemists can turn lead into gold and nobody wonders about how it will impact ….

It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. Bu….

You may have heard of me..

All stories are true..

Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are othe….

It was more exciting when I didn't know I had permission..

Frequently, an author gets "orphaned" at a publisher. What this means is that an editor buys their book, then ends up getting fired, promoted, or tra….