I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do.

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

As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me.

The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.

The best science fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field.

You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out.

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