In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate. - Isaac Asimov
"In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate."
"In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate."
"Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in."
"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die."
"You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist."
"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
"Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers."