The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars.

You must write to the people's expertise.

If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?

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

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.

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

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.