I'm interested in having fun with ideas, throwing them up in the air like confetti and then running under them.

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do-and they don’t. They have prejudices.

Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future.

My characters talk to one another, and when it reaches a certain pitch of excitement I jump out of bed and run and trap them before they are gone.

God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.

He raged for hours. And the skeleton, ever the frail and solelmn philosopher, hung quietly inside, saying not a word, suspended like a delicate insect within a chrysalis, waiting and waiting.

Write. Don't think. Relax.