“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.

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.

We’re always moving forward in different places physically and psychologically.

The Greek in me wanted to know what it felt like to pull an oar. The intellectual wondered about how to get eight individuals to move to the same beat. The athlete wanted to check what has been described as the ultimate workout.

Under a cold turkey strategy, at each policy meeting the Federal Open Market Committee would make its best guess about where it ultimately wants the funds rate to be and would move to that rate in a single step.

Every action is seen to fall into one of three main categories, guarding, hitting, or moving. Here, then, are the elements of combat, whether in war or pugilism.

You only hit a straight ball by accident. The ball is going to move right or left every time you hit it, so you had better make it go one way or the other.

When people are nervous, some people move around. Some people scratch their leg.

A lot of the material is about the inevitable disappointment people feel as they move through life, and things don’t feel the way they expect. No experience will ever match up to the idealized version in your mind.

I like to be flexible in the way I take pictures. I do not use a tripod, and I move around in the crowd, of which I am myself part….