Throughout my life, my mom has been the person that I've always looked up to.
Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can.
Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.
How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.
If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.
I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.
I'm not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I'm afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings.
The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.
Don't make yourself so special," the dwarf said with a snort. "As if getting lost was some trick that only women knew. I've known men who could get lost in their own bedrooms. The only difference is that men with no sense of direction don't brag about it, the way women do.
Getting down to the nitty-gritty, most people are motivated by unconscious motives most of the time.
The right to work, I had assumed, was the most precious liberty that man possesses. Man has indeed as much right to work as he has to live, to be free, to own property.