Boundaries have no existence save on charts or in small minds. Nature does not draw lines.
Waiting for inspiration is like standing at the airport waiting for a train.
Real life isn't required to be logical, but fiction has to make sense.
For readers worldwide, the attraction of romance novels seems to be that they provide hope, strength, and the assurance that happy endings are possible. Romance makes the promise that no matter how bleak things sometimes look, in the end everything will turn out right and true love will triumph -- and in an uncertain world, that's very comforting.
Most of my books are set in the American Midwest, where I have always lived. Midwesterners are lovely, down-to-earth people. The luxury of choosing this region as a setting is the endless supply of seasonal change images that accompany it; in addition to, the wide variety of settings, urban and rural, to choose from.
Don't do anything as an individual that will make you stand out from your teammates.
Just as the philanthropist is the nuisance of the ethical sphere, so the nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who is so occupied in trying to educate others, that he has never had any time to educate himself.
I'll miss you forever. ' Blake - Devil To Pay
Summation of Leviathan: "The axiom, fear; the method, logic; the conclusion, despotism. "