Nothing is always absolutely so

When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.

Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.

Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.

You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.

Ninety percent of SF [science fiction] is crud, but then, ninety percent of everything is crud.