Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.

It is possible to have words come to your mind, and still refrain from speaking them aloud.

All is going well, very well, I couldn’t ask for anything better— So why do I hate my life?

I have never resisted the lord in my life, and I never will. But I'm not so hungry for dialogue with him that I have to make up his part as well as my own.

When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence. Let it be the most obvious fabrication and you will still believe whatever truth is in it, because you can not deny truth no matter how shabbily it is dressed.

The difference between science fiction and fantasy … is simply this: science fiction has rivets and fantasy has trees.

Take me home, he said silently to Graff. In my dream you said you loved me. Take me home