L. Sprague de Camp

There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.

It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.

In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.

Successful entrepreneurs develop products that inspire their passion. They have to. It's that passion that gets them through the long, arduous, uncertain and frightening early days of a start-up.

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.

Color is a very critical thing. I've found that architects don't like colors. Engineers too. And so somebody has to stand in. Because this is the finish of it. It is the emotional part of a structure.