Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing.

I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!

I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and the boys, and being a writer, I world give up being a writer without a blink.

If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone who can publish it or get it published. Don't send it to me. Don't show it to your spouse, or your significant other, or your parents, or somebody. They're not going to publish it.

Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing.

Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition.

It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way