After Seven Years Of Writing

The Art Is More Important Than The Artist. The Work Is More Important Than The Person Who Does It. You Must Be Prepared To Sacrifice All The You Could Possibly Have, Be, Or Do; You Must Be Willing To Go All The Way For Your Art. If It Is A Question Between Choosing Between Your Life And A Work Of Art -- Any Work Of Art -- Your Decision Is Made For You.

Any Fool Can Tell A Story. Take A Few Odds And Ends Of Things That Happen To You, Dress Them Up, Shuffle Them About, Add A Dash Of Excitement, A Little Color, And There You Have It.

I Know That Some Readers Think (the High King) Should Have Ended Differently. I Cried For Three Days Afterwards.

Miss Vesper Holly Has The Digestive Talents Of A Goat And The Mind Of A Chess Master. She Is Familiar With Half A Dozen Languages And Can Swear Fluently In All Of Them. She Understands The Use Of A Slide Rule But Prefers Doing Calculations In Her Head. She Does Not Hesitate To Risk Life And Limb- Mine As Well As Her Own. No Doubt She Has Other Qualities As Yet Undiscovered. I Hope Not.

At The End Of Knowledge, Wisdom Begins, And At The End Of Wisdom, There Is Not Grief...but Hope