I don't read Science Fiction..
Everybody is somewhere..
Once I got started, I wanted the life of a writer so fiercely that nothing could stop me. I wanted the intensity, the sense of aliveness that came fr….
When you have an economically unequal society, you end up with huge swaths of society that are disposable, basically..
I grew up playing classical guitar, so everything I learned was rooted in technique, form, presentation..
What's your hurry? There is nothing up ahead that's any better than it is right here..
Get ticked and get going..
I prefer nothing, unless it is true..
I have done a lot of things outside of Science Fiction, but there has been an almost disproportionate amount of that genre in my body of work. I don'….
I'm not well-versed in the science fiction world. I'm hoping that I'll get more opportunities in it because you get to create a new world..
Topiary has always seemed like a good occupation, comparable in some ways to writing short fiction..
Tony Black is the Tom Waits of Crime Fiction, yes, that good..
I never worked with a stinker. How great is that!.
In New Orleans, you can pitch a rock and hit a great trumpeter..
Life--you have to live it as it comes..
Success has nothing to do with happiness..
All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again..
Times are bad, God is good..
I have just discovered the truth, and can't understand why everybody isn't eager to hear it..
Myth is the facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter..
All that I seek is already within me..