Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.

Being like everybody is the same as being nobody.

The writer's role is to menace the public's conscience. He must have a position, a point of view. He must see the arts as a vehicle of social criticism and he must focus on the issues of his time.

The most important thing about the first sale is for the very first time in your life something written has value and proven value because somebody has given you money for the words that you've written, and that's terribly important, it's a tremendous boon to the ego, to your sense of self-reliance, to your feeling about your own talent.

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

I don't have any system. I dictate a lot, through a machine, and I also have a secretary. But I used to type just like everybody else.

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