The history of science fiction started in the caves 20,000 years ago. The ideas on the walls of the cave were problems to be solved. It's problem solving. Primitive scientific knowledge, primitive dreams, primitive blueprinting: to solve problems.

It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.

All education is self-discovery.

I don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.

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.

Surprise is where creativity comes in.

When I graduated from high school I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library 3 days a week for 10 years.