Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible.

If you write beautifully, you write beautifully, that's all.

Now death is with us in such abundance and hovers over us in so massive a form that we don't have time to invent a mythology, nor is our creativity directed toward same. Now it's to prevent death.

Writers vary tremendously. Was it Tom Wolfe who stood up or was it [Ernest] Hemingway who had to stand up? I don't know.

I'd rather go along with this sense of illusion that I'm a neutral beast going along through life doing everything that's preordained.

The writer's no different. When he's rejected, that paper is rejected, in a sense, a sizeable fragment of the writer is rejected as well. It's a piece of himself that's being turned down.

Just drawing back and drawing in; becoming narcissistic.