Words are a lens to focus one's mind.
- Ayn Rand

[Editors] drive us nuts. We go from near-worshipful groveling when we submit to bitter cursing when they reject us.
- Ken Rand

Writers are schizophrenic. On the one hand we tell ourselves, "This is a work of genius! I've created Art!" Then we try to peddle it, like a widget, to The New Yorker, Playboy, or SF Age.
- Ken Rand