Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.
Ninety percent of SF [science fiction] is crud, but then, ninety percent of everything is crud.
When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it.
I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.
There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it.
The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.