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

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

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.

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

An old-shoe lover loves loving old shoes.

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.

Writing is a communication.