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.

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.

I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.

You must write to the people's expertise.

Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.

Nothing is always absolutely so

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