A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.

We write by the light of every story we have ever read.

There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.

(N)ot writing was hard work, almost as hard as writing.

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

Writing is turning life's worst moments into money.

Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.

There is a long time in me between knowing and telling.

I just rearrange words into a pleasing order for money.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.

Trying to live up to yourself is the most trying thing.

How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?

To be a writer is to embrace rejection as a way of life.