Chuck Wendig

“Story should be a descent -- the feeling that there is an intense gravity to the narrative that draws you down, down, down.”

“You can’t be friends with a droid.”

“Leadership can mean defiance.”

“Personal opinion time: some of the bravest, strangest, coolest stories right now are being told in the young adult space. It's stuff that doesn't fly by tropes or adhere to rules -- appropriate, perhaps, since young adults tend to flick cigarettes in the eyes of the rules and don't play by social norms as much as adults do.”

“He's heard tales of the Clone Wars -tales spoken by his own father. He knows how war goes. It's not many wars, but just one, drawn out again and again, cut up into slices so it seems more manageable.”

“All hail the light, the dark, and the grey.”

“We’re here to change the world, not participate in its tedium.”

“Failure is an instruction manual written in scar tissue.”

“Question marks are shaped like hooks for a reason: they will hook the reader and drag them deeper into the story”

“Science is trumped by ignorance when the ignorant are given a vote.”

“We think the future is robots and hovercars and maybe it’s really here.”

“Here are the two states in which you may exist: person who writes, or person who does not. If you write: you are a writer. If you do not write: you are not. Aspiring is a meaningless null state that romanticizes Not Writing. It’s as ludicrous as saying, “I aspire to pick up that piece of paper that fell on the floor.” Either pick it up or don’t. I don’t want to hear about how your diaper’s full. Take it off or stop talking about it.”

“All under the pretense of military application.”He pouts. “No pretense about it. Remember, the Internet was a military application. And now look at how it’s changed our culture.”

“The writer is editor, marketer, blogger, reader, thinker, designer, publisher, public speaker, budget-maker, contract reader, trouble-shooter, coffee-hound, liver-pickler, shame-farmer, god, devil, gibbering protozoa.”