I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it.

I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.

Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose?

There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.

Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.

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

In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.