Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!

Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty - and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.

Literature is analysis after the event.

You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant.