If the enemy leaves a door open, you must rush in.
People were as they were, not not as he wished them to be.
. . . Do you see things in black and white, or are there shades of gray for you?" "I hope there's gray. . . Black and white make things easier, but only if you don't want to think.
A horsefly can't do a horse much real damage, but it can drive it wild anyhow.
Fiction has to be plausible. All history has to do is happen.
You can write better about a place you've seen for yourself. You don't have to have been there - I've sure written about places I've never seen - but it does help.
I do first draft in longhand, which saves a lot of rewriting. I try to get a certain amount done each day. Don't always, but I try. Then I clean up in the rewrites.
Don't be afraid of making an ass of yourself. I do it all the time and look what I got.
Only in very recent times has the average man been a source of savings.
Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation; maybe that is what's taken us so far.
Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.