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

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

Ninety percent of everything is crap.

I repeat Sturgeon's Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against attacks of people who used the worst examples of the field for ammunition, and whose conclusion was that ninety percent of it is crud.

Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.

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

Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing.