“The secret of pleasure in life, as distinct from its great triumphs of transcendent joy, is to live in a series of small, legitimate successes. By legitimate I mean such as are not accompanied by self-condemnation.” MeanSelfSuccessJoyPleasureSecretSeriesTriumphTranscendentCondemnation Author:Sydney Thompson Dobell
“Before I even put pen to paper, in any sense, I'm like, "What's the coolest MacGuffin you can come up with? What are the last frames of this series?" The secret that's behind this entire thing is to be as evocative, original, thought-provoking and timely.” LastsSecretBehindsPaperOriginalsSeriesCome UpThought ProvokingPensProvokingTimelyOriginal Thought Author:Paul Scheuring
“I always love writing the third book in a series because you get to tie up all the threads that you put out in the first two books. You finally let people know what really happens and reveal all the secrets and bring certain characters together.” PeopleKnowsWritingFirstsTwoBookCharacterHappensTogetherCertainSecretThirdsSeriesTiesThread Author:Trudi Canavan
“Have you never observed that children will sometimes, of a sudden, give utterance to ideas which makes us wonder how they got possession of them? Which presuppose a long series of other ideas and secret self-communings? Which break forth like a full stream out of the earth, an infallible sign that the stream was not produced in a moment from a few raindrops, but had long been flowing concealed beneath the ground?” GivingChildrenLongIdeasSelfSometimesMomentsEarthSecretWonderBreakSeriesPossessionStreamsReincarnationConcealedInfallibleUtteranceRaindrops Author:Johann Gottfried Herder
“Closing the gate is meant to be a season-long arc, but the questions that come up in the quest, and the series of reveals and discoveries, are meant to start being the under-pinings for questions, secrets and things that will be explored in future seasons.” LongSecretDiscoverySeasonsSeriesCome UpGatesMeant To BeQuestsClosingArcsPining Author:Jeremy Carver