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

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.

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

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

I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.

I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.