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Any factual errors that remain are entirely the fault of Bob, who snuck into the offices at DAW to try to sabotage my book. I hate that guy.

New rule: every fantasy author who doesn't treat horses like tireless hairy motorcycles automatically gets a Hugo.

Two libriomancers had been disciplined for trying to get an early copy of the last Harry Potter book.

The gesture would have been far more gallant if his cuff hadn't been dripping with toad piss.

I'm a libriomancer. Mind tricks don't work on me. Only money." When all else fails, fall back on movie quotes.

Your business is never apparent. It requires in-depth questioning that gives you a process that provides constant refocusing of what you

You help create the vision, but you don't create the pain itself at all. The pain is just there. The doctor doesn't create your pain; she helps you see your case clearly.

many problems relate to the major categories of my system: Who are their decision makers? What's their pain? What's their budget?

no" gets you past emotional issues and trivial issues to essential issues. We want decision-based negotiation, not the emotion-based waste of time known as win-win.

I'm the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it's still about the work.

I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin' wealthy.

I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.

Corbett's exploits brought him fame as a hunter. His book turned him into a legend. - Ruskin Bond on Jim Corbett

There is nothing in nature which approximates to the idea of a hospice.

I don't need to be asking for money for local museums and other projects just to make me look good back home.

most reviews are written by morons about morons. sensibility is at a premium in american culture these days.

Until as recently as November of 1966, I had complete faith in the Warren Report. Of course, my faith in the Report was grounded in ignorance, since I had never read it.

I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.

And also there wasn't much money in television in those days anyhow.

Agile Project Management is an execution-biased model, not a planning-and-control-biased model.

Anyone who practices ad hoc development under the guise of agile methods is an imposter.

Perception like a Gestapo boot in the middle of a crystal night. He saw a

I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films—although I think they do have plots—but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are.

To quote Albert Einstein,' said Sherman, "You stink and so do your relatives." "Einstein never said that," argued Garfield. "Did too," Insisted Sherman. "It's in his theory of relativity.