There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

I believe in creative failing - to contine to write poems that fail and fail and fail until a day comes when you've got a thousand poems behind you and you're relaxed and you finally write a good poem.

The purpose of fiction is not to nail you to the ground as facts do, but to take you to the edge of the cliff and kick you off so you build your wings on the way down.

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

This is the result of six billion years of evolution. Tonight, we have given the lie to gravity.We have reached for the stars.

You're insane!" "I won't argue that point.

[His] library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore.