I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.

For honest insight into who you are, don't ask yourself what your priorities are for next week. Ask what your priorities were last week.

Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book.

I live for those rare and delicious moments when the words on the page take off and I am the bystander, watching as the tale shows me what will happen next.

A community that learns together excels together. We need to form communities that learn together.

This is a slow business to have success in. There are exceptions, but for the most part it's kind of like the last writer standing.... I've got gray. I've got plenty of gray. I'm creating a career slowly, like a coral reef.

A brilliant mind was never as clever as three average minds sniffing after something of interest.