Deception Is Mostly A Game We Play

You Spend So Much Time Wondering Who You Are, Don't You Think? You Flounder About, Searching For Your Identity, When Most Of The Time It Is Plain As The Nose On Your Face. You Struggle With Questions Of Purpose And Need, And Forget That The Answers Are Found Mostly Inside Yourselves.

Lester Del Rey Told Me Repeatedly That The First And Most Important Part Of Writing Fiction Is Just To Think About The Story. Don't Write Anything Down. Don't Try To Pull Anything Together Right Away. Just Dream For A While And See What Happens. There Isn't Any Timetable Involved, No Measuring Stick For How Long It Ought To Take. For Each Book, It Is Different. But That Period Of Thinking, Of Reflection, Is Crucial To How Successful Your Story Will Turn Out To Be.

We Live Out Our Lives As We Are Meant To Live Them-with Some Choice, With Some Chance, But Mostly As A Result Of The Persons We Are.

I Am Incomplete Without My Work. I Am So Closely Bound To It, So Much Identified By It, That Without It I Think I Would Crumble Into Dust And Drift Away.

In Bad Weather, I Spent Hours Drawing Action Figures On Paper, Coloring Them, Backing Them On Cardboard, Then Cutting Them Out And Creating Whole Stories Around Their Lives.