I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely controlled by the soulless cretins known as publishers.

At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void.

People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.

But one must go where one's road leads, even when it's a distressing road.

If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case.