You fail only if you stop writing.

I’m ALIVE. Thinking about it, noticing it, is new. You do things and don’t watch. Then all of a sudden you look and see what you’re doing and it’s the first time, really.

And the odd think in Dad's voice was the sound truth makes being said.

We are all . . . children of this universe. Not just Earth, or Mars, or this system, but the whole grand fireworks. And if we are interested in Mars at all, it is only because we wonder over our past and worry terribly about our possible future.

Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day.

You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they write themselves.

Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.