Quotes from Bob Mayer

nonetheless

He immediately corrected that thought; he had no idea what reality was

quid-pro-quo.

worried. Not so

Why put an alarm where you are not?

Just as it is important to know what you want in your novel, it is key to know what you want from your career.

I'm convinced fear is at the root of most bad writing." Stephen King

Old soldiers loved to tell war stories, yet this guy had hung up on her.

O Solon, you Greeks are children. There have been and will be many destructors of mankind, of which the greatest are by fire and water." She

Earhart leaned forward. "When—I" but she paused and canted her head to the side. "There's a disturbance." Ivar couldn't stop himself. "In the Force?" That one flew by Earhart by about a forty-year gap.

stasis field

thick golden tendril

You can "pants" your way through your novel, but you can't "pants" your way to success.

single death does not stop the other lives affected by it. It sends them tumbling, staggering, meandering, marching, searching, in different directions.

He gave a life for a life," Kono said. "There is nothing more honorable." * * *

why anyone would trade Rachel for the secretary, but he'd watched a few of those late night Showtime flicks and men could be incredibly stupid when their genitals were involved.

a prow of rock

their husbands probably had ample opportunity and resources to find excitement elsewhere. That's why they invented golfing trips, or so he had been told.

He laughed out loud. He was trying to remember if his memory had been altered. The epitome of irony and futility.

so few understood that blinding ambition was the necessary ingredient of any intelligence or talent.

York City, the river narrows and makes a sharp bend to the west. The craggy highland on the left bank is called West Point and was first fortified to keep the American colonies united during the Revolutionary War.

contingencies

To keep the officer corps from becoming filled with sycophants who would support a particular party or person over the country, in 1802 he ordered the establishment of an Academy to train a professional cadre of officers that would draw its cadets from across the country and across the strata of society.

LRRPs." He pronounced it as Lurps.