A community is a small group working together. Community scales by adding groups, and building connections between them, not enlarging them.

I'm the only member of SFWA in Nebraska, but I don't pine away for the companionship of other science fiction writers. I [go] to very few conventions. I'm quite willing to be that eccentric who has a very odd job, quite happy to be the only science fiction writer in town.

Science fiction is really a rather tiny business compared with its giant cousin, which is fantasy.

I wrote when I was a young teen, but I didn't put an eye on the available markets until I was seventeen. The next ten years felt like a self-centered experiment in personal abuse.

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

I can't point to a moment or incident that made me see that this business, this putting down words on paper, was what I would do for the rest of my lucid life. But apparently, that is my calling.

A community is a small group working together. Community scales by adding groups, and building connections between them, not enlarging them.