Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?.

These are all novels, all about people that never existed, the people that read them it makes them unhappy with their own lives. Makes them want to l….

Into the air, over the valleys, under the stars, above a river, a pond, a road, flew Cecy. Invisible as new spring winds, fresh as the breath of clov….

The stars are yours, if you have the head, the hands, and the heart for them..

Just write every day of your life. Read intensely..

We are the witnesses to the miracle. We are put here by creation, by God....We're here to be the audience to the magnificent. It is our job to celebr….

I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible. Science fiction, again, is the history of ideas, and they'….

Why all this insistence on the senses? Because in order to convince your reader that he is THERE, you must assault each of his senses, in turn, with ….

We were put here as witnesses to the miracle of life. We see the stars, and we want them. We are beholden to give back to the universe. If we make la….

I don't like realism. We already know the real facts about li[fe], most of the basic facts. I'm not interested in repeating what we already know. We ….

This is the result of six billion years of evolution. Tonight, we have given the lie to gravity.We have reached for the stars..

There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library..

If you had your way you’d pass a law to abolish all the little jobs, the little things. But then you’d leave yourselves nothing to do between the big….

Every time you take a step, even when you don't want to. . . . When it hurts, when it means you rub chins with death, or even if it means dying, that….

You can't learn to write that way - by writing directly for the screen. Wait until you're 30. But in the meantime write 200 short stories. You've got….

Kids love me because I write stories that tell them about their capacity for evil. I'm one of the few writers who lets you cleanse yourself that way..

When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die..

In order to be creative, you don't have to be original..

A Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time,” she said. “I was born out of New York. The things that are most wrong here summoned me. ("Drink….

Remember, with writing, what you’re looking for is just one person to come up and tell you, 'I love you for what you do.'.

If you did not write every day, the poisons would accumulate and you would begin to die, or act crazy or both-you must stay drunk on writing so reali….