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

Nothing is always absolutely so

Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.

Just think about it," he said softly. "You can do practically anything. You can have practically everything. And none of it will keep you from being alone." "Shut up shut up...Everybody's alone." He nodded. "But some people learn how to live with it.

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

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

A good science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its science content.