Teaching is very important to me, and it has become more important as I get older.

Teaching is very important to me, and it has become more important as I get older.

Truly things are better in general now, in America, than in the past.

We have to diversify, we have to find work we can do that helps other people while helping ourselves, work that has to do with writing that isn't necessarily just writing saleable novels or getting huge advances.

We're always inventing, even if we're making someone who's fairly close to ourselves.

I don't have the courage not to write all the time.

Writers sometimes are paid a great deal of money, but much more frequently they're not paid or are paid only a little bit.