My roommates are all such happy-go-lucky guys and I carry some of the stress around a lot more.
Conceptually I always took issue with bullies and those who took advantage of others whether it was a teacher's cruelty to a student or a student who picked fights with others.
Every high school I went to I joined in the middle of the year so sports helped. But you see a lot of bullies when you move to eight states I'll say that.
I've always looked at independent booksellers in a romantic light.
Liars make the best promises.
I was learning the craft; I didn't study writing in school. Rejection was my motivation and failure is what taught me.
My editor's main job is to cut down my worldbuilding. There's so much fun stuff in there you know?
He always thinks because I'm reading I'm not doing anything. There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extroverted.
Every hero must return home. Starks to Winterfell. Harry to Privet Drive. Luke Skywalker to Tattoine. Katniss to District twelve. The fun is in seeing how they return.
There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extroverted.
You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brightest. Mustang is. You follow me because you do not know where you are going. I do.
There are so many ideas that you just come up with on a day-to-day basis when you're a writer that it's very difficult to want to go back to an old fling so to speak.
Morning Star' is the light that many sailors would use to guide them. But it's also referenced twice in the Bible - once for Lucifer and once for Jesus.
I think girls have a harder time than guys do if you're switching schools. Guys don't get picked on as long as you're OK in sports.
When you look at a lot of the military histories and even modern military history everyone pretty much refers to each other by nicknames.