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

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

I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.

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

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

I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.

It's the Simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that.