Work is the only answer. I have three rules to live by. One, get your work done. If that doesn't work, shut up and drink your gin. And when all else fails, run like hell!

We Earth Men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things. The only reason we didn't set up hot-dog stands in the midst of the Egyptian temple of Karnak is because it was out of the way and served no large commercial purpose.

When I finished [writing it], I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good.

Not to write, for many of us, is to die. We must take ares each and every day, perhaps knowing that the battle cannot be entirely won, but fight we must, if only a gentle bout. The smallest effort to win means, at the end of each day, a sort of victory.

The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.

You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year

Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.