You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.

Science fiction is really sociological studies of the future, things that the writer believes are going to happen by putting two and two together.

No use going to class unless you go to the library.

I do a first draft as passionately and as quickly as I can. I believe a story is valid only when it's immediate and passionate, when it dances out of your subconscious. If you interfere in any way, you destroy it.

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

Who has more pockets than a magician? A boy. Whose pockets contain *more* than a magicians? A boy's.