Writing is almost a place of dreams for me, and I don't have to give up anything to do it.

We born dyin'...But you ask a man an' he talk like he gonna live forevah.

One wouldn't want to say that what makes a good writer is the number of books that the writer wrote because you could write a whole number of bad books. Books that don't work, mediocre books, or there's a whole bunch of people in the pulp tradition who have done that. They just wrote... and actually they didn't write a whole bunch of books, they just wrote one book many times.

I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.

All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you really don't need to read further if there's nothing else to find out.

The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do everyday. There are two reasons for this rule: Getting the work done and connecting with your unconscious mind.

Love makes you blind to your own survival. And if it doesn't then it's not love at all.