I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.

Ninety percent of everything is crap.

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

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

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

You must write to the people's expertise.