I sent The World Well Lost to one editor who rejected it on sight, and then wrote a letter to every other editor in the field warning them against the story, and urging them to reject it on sight without reading it. ↗
Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves to a greater and greater extent. ↗
Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of the globe, that it is classed as a continent in order to convey to the mind a just idea of its magnitude. ↗
I love research. When there's something that I like, I want to know everything about it. I want to know exactly what was behind it, and where it went from there. ↗