I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30.

I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort.

My gut feeling is that paper and ink are going to be with us for a long time yet, and in substantial quantities, though certainly books are now going to be available in other forms.

There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons.

I am generally way out of touch with trends, except now and then I am surprised to find myself leading one, like sympathetic vampires.

Actually ideas are everywhere. It's the paperwork, that is, sitting down and thinking them into a coherent story, trying to find just the right words, that can and usually does get to be labor.

Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity.