Reepacheep

“Kai had once lectured Grayson on why men fight. “A man fights for many reasons,” he’d said. “Most of all, he fights for his buddies on either side of him on the firing line, and that’s where his loyalty lies when the heat is on. But it’s home and family that puts him there on the firing line in the first place.”
― William H. Keith Jr., Decision at Thunder Rift

“I think it's a rule that it's socially acceptable to wet yourself when aliens enter your mind for the first time. If it wasn't already, it is now.”
― Orson Scott Card, Shadows in Flight

“...passive voice is better than writing out a humongous number and taking the risk that your readers' brains will be numb by the time they get to the verb.”
― Mignon Fogarty, Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

“The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft