“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.

When Mama starts to move across a room, people pay attention. You can never be sure she’s not going to grab you by the top of the head to steady herself. And she’s pretty free with that walking stick, too.

To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one’s fellow countrymen….

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

I think that what we want to do as we continue to move forward is look at the various points that have been made.

This time you’ve dug yourself an anchor too heavy to move ahead with.

When neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself.

In life you are either growing or rotting. You’re moving forward or backwards; there is no standing still.

In a world moving so fast, with the growth of technology and information,