He was alone in the darkness once more, but the darkness became brighter and brighter until it was burning like the sun.

Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.

All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories.

A disturbing novel about dreams and wishes, a nightmarish distaff monkey's paw of a book that it's impossible to forget. Lisa Tuttle remains our preeminent chronicler of family madness and desire.

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams

Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity.