"Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones..." - Quote by C S Lewis

“It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth.”

“And the Prince stared at her like a man out of his wits.”

“To fight in another man's armour is something more than to be influenced by his style of fighting.”

“In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.”

“I write 3-4 days a week, 4-5 hours at a time (with lots of breaks). My goal is 2000 words when I sit down to write and usually, I hit that, though it can take anywhere from 3-7 hours to get there. I usually know the basics of where the story is going, but the specifics just sort of come to me as I write.”

“If a story isn't working, I'm simply unable to finish it. That's what usually tells me something is wrong.”

“When we really sit back with a smile on our face is when we run into a situation we can understand, where the facts are ascertainable and clear, and the course of action obvious.”

“If you don't know what you want, don't say you never had a chance.”

“Sometimes we are clarified and calmed healthily, as we never were before in our lives, not by an opiate, but by some unconscious obedience to the all-just laws, so that we become like a still lake of purest crystal and without an effort our depths are revealed to ourselves. . . .”