A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)?

Fantasy is literature for teenagers.

When knowledge becomes formulated into a science, then it does take on a life of it's own, often alien to the human spirit that conceived it.

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers. Just a flimsy reputation and a name.

We belong to an age where apocalypse is our daily bread, coffee's black, and we know we're part of the abyss. Red Spider White Web is right on target in conveying that understanding. It splinters in the mind... the underworld of the century's imaginings.

I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity.