You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

If a writer : knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows:. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of…