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

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.

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

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.

I think that music and art and film, at their best, can connect with something that is eternal in human beings, that might not have so many labels on it, something that’s ultimately universal and that may just be a feeling.

I never had secure, belonging feelings with this society [in China].

He that is gone so far as to cut the claws of the lion, will not feel himself quite secure, until he has also drawn his teeth.

I guess my feeling is that if you’re going to make a joke, that’s fine, but you should also sort of stand behind it, you know? A joke should be more than a joke, it should be a point that you’re trying to make.

I’m still very grateful to digital cameras in general, but I didn’t have this feeling with the RED one.

Feelings don’t have to make sense to be valid.

Feelings don’t have to make sense to be valid.

We apply law to facts. We don’t apply feelings to facts.