“The goal is not writing. The goal is being a human being writing.”

About a year after (my stories began being published), magazine editor George Scithers, suggested to me that since I was so new at being published.

I must be very close to what I had to learn to move from fooling around with writing to actually producing professional stories.

There are a lot of aspiring writers out there who would like to know just that. Write that book.SFWW-I is that book. It’s the book I was looking for when I first started writing fiction.

Stories are not about ideas, gimmicks, or places. Stories are about people. People are about feelings!

As a child I used to watch clouds, and in them, see faces, castles, animals, dragons, and giants. It was a world of escape–fantasy; something to inject wonder and adventure into the mundane, regulated life of a middle-class boy leading a middle-class life.

The goal of socialism is communism.

Many discouraging hours will arise before the rainbow of accomplished goals will appear on the horizon.

I told them my system was based on the “ant plan,” that I’d gotten the idea watching a colony of ants in Africa during the war. A whole bunch of ants working toward a common goal.

You can accomplish virtually any goal you set for yourself, as long as the goal is clear and you persist long enough.

Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.

One thing a goal must do is fill us with positive emotion when we think about it. The more intensely we feel about a goal the more progressively we’ll move toward it.

I always wanted to be one of the hottest rappers.

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life – a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.