Grief is not necessarily any prettier than death, and the grief-stricken do not wander like lambs grateful for the shepherd's guidance. They can be more like wounded wolves, snapping at those who woul...
When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void.
For our stories are not yet finished, and perhaps will never be.
By all means. Swords have ever been the best servants of crazy men.
But I have so much to learn! Zane cried plaintively. Then get to it, Death, she said, closing the door behind her.
Prevaricate.
Dor wondered whether, if he should ever happen to be a ghost for eight hundred years, zombies might begin to look good to him. He doubted it.
Do you seek to bribe Death? Zane asked, half angry and two-thirds curious.
Bink knew the dolphin only from old pictures; it was a kind of magic fish that breathed air instead of water.
Extirpated.
Writers pay a lot of attention to wordage, because some publishers seem to care more about length than about quality and will automatically reject novels that don't fit their narrow standards of lengt...
The man glanced up. Hello. Tweeter tells me you’re Kody, a fellow Mundanian, newly arrived, and you want to compare notes. Uh, yes, in essence, Kody agreed, taken aback. All that from one tweet? Well,...
Polishing: a useful lesson for the hopeful writer. You say your tormented prose doesn’t read as well as mine? Neither does mine, at first!
It is the man who can’t be trusted who does not trust others because he judges them by himself.
Information is power.--Humfrey
Evil can never touch the person who refuses to accept it.
Brevity did not mean inconsequence...
Barbarian --A Code of Conduct honored by all true barbarian warriors, requiring excellent coordination with weapons, closeness to nature, awkwardness with women, common sense, and completion of the mi...
At first I was exhilarated by my freedom from the responsibility of the kingship. This lasted about seven minutes. I was also depressed by my freedom from marriage, for I had become accustomed to the...
Wenda's chest and hips shrank, her shoulders and arms turned muscular and her body became lean and hard where it had been rounded and soft. The hair of her head shortened drastically, and a mustache s...