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

For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have.

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

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

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

Love's a different sort of thing, hot enough to make you flow into something, interflow, cool and anneal and be a weld stronger than what you started with.

When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it.