Jose D Castillo

“The wise man molds himself—the fool lives only to die.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

“The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed. We feel threatened by such demands. “I already know the important things!”we say. Then Changer comes”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

“Band together behind the fire in the mouth of the cave, fellow tribesmen!”
― Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune

“Anne Leigh Parrish, fiction editor for Eclectica magazine, says, “A story is not a nice description of how things are. It’s not a sensibility, or a mood. While those elements surely contribute to a story, a story itself is a narrative where there must be a change in the reader’s understanding of the events, or in the protagonist’s understanding. You leave a story seeing something you didn’t see at the outset, something that makes sense of what’s come before.”
― Nancy Sakaduski, How to Write Winning Short Stories: A practical guide to writing stories that win contests and get selected for publication