"You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence."

Loyalty, Persistence, Thinking, Writing

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"You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence."

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"Your loved ones have been used to lure you into Kronos's traps. Your fatal flaw is personal loyalty Percy. You do not know when it is time to cut your losses. To save a friend you would sacrifice the world."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Loyalty, Truth, Power, Regret, Inspirational

"The old man in the beard he felt convinced was wrong. He was too busy saving his own soul. Wasn't it better to take part even in the crimes of people you loved, if it was necessary hate as they did, and if that were the end of everything suffer damnation with them rather than be saved alone?"

Graham Greene, British Playwright

Loyalty, Sin, Love, Salvation

"Your greatest friendships are those that survive the greatest storms."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Loyalty, Friendships, Storms, Endurance, Trust

"Where are Haldad my father, and Haldad my brother? If the king of Doriath fears a friendship between Haleth and those who have devoured her kin, then the ways of the Eldar are strange to Men."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Loyalty, Friendship, Fear, Men

"It is not until an act occurs within the landscape of the past and future that it is a human act. Loyalty, which asserts the continuity of past and future, binding time into a whole, is the root of human strength; there is no good to be done without it."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

Loyalty, Strength, Time, Humanity

"Given the nature of the human couple, the love of a man and a woman is a priori inferior to that which can exist (at least in the best instances) in the love between man and dog...It is a completely selfless love."

Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakian Writer

Loyalty, Love, Man, Relationship

"Even though Ronan was snarling and Noah was sighing and Adam was hesitating, he didn't turn to verify that they were coming. He knew they were. In three different ways, he'd earned them all days or weeks or months before, and when it came to it, they'd all follow him anywhere."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

Loyalty, Trust, Friendship, Leadership

"Where there is loyalty, weapons are of no use."

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

Loyalty, Trust, Truth, Unity

"If you aren't loyal to the few you won't be blessed with the many."

Orrin Woodward, American Author

Loyalty, Faith, Trust, Integrity

"In theory, sure, Gregor could still go home. Pack up his three-year-old sister, Boots, get his mom out of the hospital, where she was recovering from the plague, and have his bat, Ares, fly them back up to the laudry room of their appartment building in New York City. Ares, his bond, who saved his life numerous times and who had had nothing but suffering since he had met Gregor. He tried to imagine the parting. "Well, Ares, it's been great. I'm heading home now. I know by leaving I'm completely dooming to annihilation everbody who's helped me down here, but I'm really not up for this whole war thing anymore. So, fly you high, you know?" Like that would ever happen."

Suzanne Collins, American Novelist

Loyalty, Sacrifice, Responsibility, Conflict

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"I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining."

Creativity, Science, Fiction, Open

"Third, for people who aren't doing it already, take classes - they're worthwhile. Workshops or classes - a workshop is where you do actually get feedback on your work, not just something where you go and sit for a day."

Education, Work, People, Day

"I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things."

Attitude, Conscience

"Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish."

Spiritual, Religion, Hope, Companionship, Heaven

"No, I think the future of humanity will be like the past, we'll do what we've always done and there will still be human beings. Granted, there will always be people doing something different and there are a lot of possibilities."

People, Future, Humanity, Past

"No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that I would take that interest."

Writing, Science, Fiction, Interest

"On the other hand, I was very much interested in the way people behaved, the human dance, how they seemed to move around each other. I wanted to play around with that."

Empathy, People, Dance, Play

"What I'm working on now - I'm back to fantasy, although considering that it's me, I'm turning it into a kind of science fantasy. It's a vampire story - but my vampires are biological vampires. They didn't become vampires because someone bit them; they were born that way."

Science, Fantasy, Now

"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over."

Friendship, Art, Time, People, Friend

"And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing."

Lifestyle, Day, Excuses, First, Writers