Who's a boy gonna talk to if not his mother?.

In the most basic way, writers are defined not by the stories they tell, or their politics, or their gender, or their race, but by the words they use….

I don't think I would have been a good architect. Really, I have thought about this from time to time, and I might have wound up like my father, who ….

The fictioneer labors under the constraint of plausibility; his inventions must stay within the capacity of the audience to accept and believe. God, ….

The trouble with real life is, there's no reset button..

Whenever things sound easy, it turns out there's one part you didn't hear..

Those 4 guys in the late 60's who attacked a jewel merchant on New York's West 46th St. on the sidewalk, so they could steal his jewel-filled station….

Publishing is the only industry I can think of where most of the employees spend most of their time stating with great self-assurance that they don't….

Years ago, I heard an interview with violinist Yehudi Menuhin. The interviewer said, "Do you still practice?" And he said, "I practice every day." He….

I know people who have suffered writer's block, and I don't think I've ever had it. A friend of mine, for three years he couldn't write. And he said ….

In order to hold your faith intact be sure it's kept unsullied by fact..

Science fiction is a weird category, because it's the only area of fiction I can think of where the story is not of primary importance. Science ficti….

Christmas reminds us we are not alone. We are not unrelated atoms, jouncing and ricocheting amid aliens, but are a part of something, which holds and….

As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December's bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our live….

Writing is flat, so if you only have part of one eye working, you still can do the job. It's just that you sit there and you're angry, which doesn't ….

The thing that I prefer, when I'm working on a book, is to do a seven-day week, because it's easy to lose some of the details of what you're doing al….

Nobody gets everything in this life. You decide your priorities and you make your choices. I'd decided long ago that any cake I had would be eaten..

I make a note, set it aside, and hope it makes sense when the time comes to look at it again..

Santa Claus is a god. He's no less a god than Ahura Mazda, or Odin, or Zeus. Think of the white beard, the chariot pulled through the air by a breed ….

There are a couple of writers I admired who were very good at giving the character's emotion without stating what that emotion was. Not saying "He wa….

Parker wasn't supposed to be a series. He was supposed to be one book, and if he was only going to be in one book, I didn't worry about it. And then ….