Never Name The Well From

Beware What You Speak,' Said The Merlin Very Softly, 'for Indeed The Words We Speak Make Shadows Of What Is To Come, And By Speaking Them We Bring Them To Pass, My King.

What You See Is From Outside Yourself, And May Come, Or Not, But Is Beyond Your Control. But Your Fear Is Yours, And Yours Alone, Like Your Voice, Or Your Fingers, Or Your Memory, And Therefore Yours To Control. If You Feel Powerless Over Your Fear, You Have Not Yet Admitted That It Is Yours, To Do With As You Will.

The Goddess Does Not Shower Her Gifts On Those Who Reject Them.

There's No "magic Secret"; Writing Is Like Everything Else; Ten Percent Inspiration Or Talent, And Ninety Percent Hard Work. Persistence; Keeping At It Till You Get There. As Agnes De Mille Said, It Means Working Every Day—bored, Tired, Weary, Or With A Fever Of A Hundred And Two.

[t]he House Of Maidens Was For Little Girls Whose Whole Duty In Life Was To Spill Things, Break Things, And Forget Things . . . Until They Had Spilled, Broken, And Forgotten Everything They Could, And Thus Made Room In Their Lives For A Little Wisdom.