You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out.

Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing.

The best science fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field.

As far as Im concerned, I didnt dream - ever.

Writing is a communication.

The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars.

I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.