Terry Pratchett's Right Up My Alley ...

Polishing: A Useful Lesson For The Hopeful Writer. You Say Your Tormented Prose Doesn't Read As Well As Mine? Neither Does Mine, At First!

The Library Is A Place Of Mental Diversion, Learning, And Comfort For Anyone Who Has An Intellect. I Know Of No Librarian Who When Asked For Food For The Mind Will Offer A Stone. What More Could Anyone Ask?

Have A Working Spouse, Because You Won't Earn A Living From Writing - Not At First, If Ever. My Wife Worked For Years To Support Us.

Princess Rose Should Indeed Be A Tv Movie, Assuming Something Doesn't Go Wrong. I Don't Know How Good A Movie It Will Be, Because The Way Movie Folk Think Is Different From The Way Writers Think, And I Distrust What Isn't Done My Way. This Is What I Call A Healthy Paranoia.

That Most Dangerous Of Opponents: The One Who Took Pains To Comprehend The Position Of His Adversary.