My eyes are green, my hair is silver and I freckly; the rest is subject to change without notice.

But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end

How could she have believed such an artificial life as the theatre was suitable?

But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible

My eyes are green, my hair is silver and I freckly; the rest is subject to change without notice.

James Blish told me I had the worst case of "said bookism" (that is, using every word except said to indicate dialogue). He told me to limit the verbs to said, replied, asked, and answered and only when absolutely necessary.

I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway