It is not easy always to be joyful, to keep in mind the duty of delight.
Most agents hate prologues. Just make the first chapter relevant and well written.
The best children's book writers are not people who have kids, but people who write from the child within themselves.
Most new writers think it's easy to write for children, but it's not. You have to get in a beginning, middle and end, tell a great story, write well, not be condescending-all in a few pages.
A query letter should be like a skirt. Long enough to cover everything, but short enough to be exciting.
I'd always wanted to do something about the Second World War, but I didn't want to do another combat film, whether it was air, land, or sea.
It's time for the truth: I want to be traded, I'm ready to be traded. First and foremost, this has nothing to do with the fans or the city, it's just time for me to look after me.
To make a proper moral appraisal of the prevalence of severe poverty today, we should focus not on comparisons with times past, when the global average income was much lower, but on a comparison with what would be possible in our time, given the current global average income and level of technological and administrative development.
Nature is the symbol of Spirit.