Sublime

The skill was to flow around everything, like water over rocks, without breaking the line.

Focusing on the struggle to get objects of desire will make up for almost every other kind of Story misstep.

Instead of applying self-knowledge, self-discipline,

We’re not alone if we’ve been mowed down by Resistance; millions of good men and women have bitten the dust before us. And here’s the biggest bitch: We don’t even know what hit us. I never did. From age twenty-four to thirty-two, Resistance kicked my ass from East Coast to West and back again thirteen times and I never even knew it existed. I looke

I‘ll do between ten and fifteen drafts of every book I write. Most writers do.

Life is a battle between the Maker and His creation. Hoel grows expert at the fight.