Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.
Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.
Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.
I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.
It's not Brits who think American readers are a bunch of whinging morons with the geo-social understanding of a wire coat hanger, it's American editors.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
