What it boils down to is that parenting a child with autism is a difficult job; writing about it is far easier.

No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully.

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store.

Even if a tamed wolf makes a good sheepdog, he will never understand how the sheep feel....You are most fortunate. For having been, as you thought, a coward, and helpless to fight - you know what that is like. You know what bitterness that feeling breeds - you know in your own heart what kind of evil it brings. And so you are most fit to fight it where it occurs.

Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women.

My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.