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

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

You must always assume that the relationship between writer and producer is that of adversaries - however you slice it. They may be your dearest friends, and they'll invite you to dinner, but when all the smoke clears and the ozone lifts, your enemy is the producer, that's the guy you're competing with, and you have to battle him, just as if you were an adversary.

Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.

I think I would like to be in Victorian times. Small town. Bandstands. Summer. That kind of thing. Without disease.

If you're really a good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read, and you'll be produced somehow. It just works that way. If you're just a simple ordinary day-to-day craftsman, no different than most, then the likelihood is that you probably won't make it in writing.

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