Occupation: Author Birth: August 6, 1934
Information is power. --Humfrey.
When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void..
Happy children do not seem to grow up to be writers..
But one must go where one's road leads, even when it's a distressing road..
One day you'll discover that the opinions of worthless people are worthless..
For our stories are not yet finished, and perhaps will never be..
In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease….
At this slower pace the journey took a couple of days, and I fought off a few minor threats along the way --griffins, carnivorous plants, giant serpe….
I hope to read a Harry Potter novel soon, to see what it's all about. I admit to being annoyed that many good light fantasy writers have had trouble ….
I never do a full outline, and if I did, I would not feel bound to it, because the view from inside a scene can be different from the view outside it….
At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails..
All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense..
Obviously it could be, because it was..
Every person professes to love good and hate evil, but in his actions his real preferences emerges..
One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need..
Bink knew the dolphin only from old pictures; it was a kind of magic fish that breathed air instead of water..
Have a working spouse, because you won't earn a living from writing - not at first, if ever. My wife worked for years to support us..
Adults had the notion that juveniles needed to suffer. Only when they had suffered enough to wipe out most of their naturally joyous spirits and inno….
...the sweetest temptation could be that which was known to be the most foolish..
No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to thousands, there are many familiar….
Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a tape of a later one, and ….