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

Ninety percent of SF [science fiction] is crud, but then, ninety percent of everything is crud.

I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do.

There is no way of writing stories that I haven't done.

There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it.

I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream.

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