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.

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.

The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.

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

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

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

No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs.