Ideas come to people who are receptive to them.

People don't get to change things. Things change people once in a while, but people don't change things.

Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.

Ideas come to people who are receptive to them.

If you build a better mousetrap, Nature will build a better mouse.

The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one.

I don't plan an awful lot in life just as I don't plan an awful lot in my fiction.