For honest insight into who you are, don't ask yourself what your priorities are for next week. Ask what your priorities were last week.

I can't point to a moment or incident that made me see that this business, this putting down words on paper, was what I would do for the rest of my lucid life. But apparently, that is my calling.

Occasionally, I'll dream I'm in the factory. That will help me write. Not creatively, but more like a prod. I don't want to go back there.

To improve as a player you need to not only know how you plan to win, but ... how might your opponent disrupt your plan.

I wrote when I was a young teen, but I didn't put an eye on the available markets until I was seventeen. The next ten years felt like a self-centered experiment in personal abuse.

I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.

A brilliant mind was never as clever as three average minds sniffing after something of interest.