I Deliberately Made An Effort Not To

I Sometimes Feel That If Your Book Sells More Than 20 Years, Then There's Something In It That You Can Say, Gee, I Did Something That Endures, That's Timeless

I Used To Work Very Long Hours. Then I Started To Realize That The Stuff That I Was Writing In The Late Afternoons, I Was Generally Throwing Out. So I Quit Earlier Than I Used To.

You Can Lose A Reader In A Blink Of An Eye. If A Person Is An Engineer Or Chemist Or An Anthropologist Or Whatever, You Spoil The Whole Book For That Person If There's Obviously Ignorance Here. What's Wrong With So Much Science Fiction Is That The Science Is So Lousy That It Isn't Worth Paying Attention To.

I Trained Myself To Be Organized.

The Moment The Curtain Rose On That First Ballet, I Knew Something Wonderful And New Had Come Into My Life. I Can Still See The First Scene. The Ballet Was Divertimento No. 15