Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.
——Edgar Rice Burroughs

“The critics and reviewers of a hundred years from now, if they remember any of us at all, may have opinions much different from those of today.”
——Fred Saberhagen

Occasionally, there arises a writing situation where you see an alternative to what you are doing, a mad, wild gamble of a way for handling something, which may leave you looking stupid, ridiculous or brilliant — you just don’t know which. You can play it safe there, too, and proceed along the route you’d mapped out for yourself. Or you can trust your personal demon who delivered that crazy idea in the first place.
Trust your demon.

—Roger Zelazny

“As for courage and will – we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
— Andre Norton

“When you put your hands and mind and heart into the knowing of a thing … there is no room in you for fear.”

Patricia A. McKillip

“Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.”

— Charles Dickens

‘All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us’ —

J.R.R. Tolkein, excerpt from Fellowship of the Ring

‘It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.’
— Isaac Asimov