As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

There are dance artists, painting artists and writing artists. Authors are writing artists. You can practice art in whatever medium you choose, and words are mine.

It is only when science asks why, instead of simply describing how, that it becomes more than technology. When it asks why, it discovers Relativity. When it only shows how, it invents the atom bomb, and then puts its hands over its eye and says, My God what have I done?

Genre is a useful concept only when used not evaluatively but descriptively.

Writers have to get used to launching something beautiful and watching it crash and burn. They also have to learn when to let go control, when the work takes off on its own and flies, farther than they ever planned or imagined, to places they didn't know they knew.

If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

The reader can't take much for granted in a fiction where the scenery can eat the characters.