That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life.

I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored.

Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.

You're either in love with what you do, or you're not in love.

An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.

You don't organize metaphors . . . you explode them.