If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.

Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can.

Now I have to motivate myself much more than I had previously.

I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days.

Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience.

Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.