I Never Went To A Ballet Until

We're Taught Lord Acton's Axiom: All Power Corrupts, Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely. I Believed That When I Started These Books, But I Don't Believe It's Always True Any More. Power Doesn't Always Corrupt. Power Can Cleanse. What I Believe Is Always True About Power Is That Power Always Reveals.

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.

There's A Feeling About It. You Feel Almost Like A Cabinetmaker, Laying Planks. There's A Real Feeling When You Know You're Getting It Right. It's A Physical Feeling.

Whenever I Go To Work I Wear A Jacket And A Tie, Because I'm Inherently Quite Lazy, And My Books Take So Long To Do, And My Publishers Don't Bug Me, So It's So Easy To Fool Yourself Into Thinking You're Working Harder Than You Really Are.

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.