You can be a hunchback and a dwarf and what-all. If you write beautifully, you can write beautifully.

There are millions of ways to not be writing. You say you're not in the mood, you'll pick it up tomorrow.

I don't feel, God dictated that I should write.

Star Trek, I thought, was a very inconsistent show, which at times sparkled with true ingenuity and pure science fiction approaches, and other times was more carnival-like, and very much more the creature of television than the creature of a legitimate literary form.

I don't have close relationships with agents. They're friends, but they're not confidants.

Why do I write? I guess that's been asked of every writer. I don't know. It isn't any massive compulsion.

Bias and prejudice make me angry...more than anything.