When you're a writer, you have to have the passion and the skill and the craft. It's not just enough to have the passion. You've gotta have all three.
Harlan EllisonThe ability to dream is all I have to give. That is my responsibility; that is my burden. And even I grow tired.
Harlan EllisonIn these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy... anything that keeps people stupid is a felony.
Harlan EllisonThe act of writing means you wish to communicate. Whether you're writing a memoir for yourself you put in a drawer, or you write a poem and you send it to a little magazine, or you write for publication, it always means - the form follows function.
Harlan Ellison