“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.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.

Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games, and verbal superficiality. As honesty and real integrity characterize our lives, there will be no need to manipulate others.

A layperson who is consciously aiming to be continuously alive in the Now is a monk.

The goal is to make everything around me grow, Including myself.

As a sportsman, my aim was to help sportspersons grow. The idea is to see what is good for sport rather than what’s good for individuals.

My main goal is to stay healthy because when you’re injured you realise how lucky you are to have your health.

I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.

My long-term goal is to become the world number one player.