That Which Could Hunger, Could Starve.

On The Other Hand, I Was Very Much Interested In The Way People Behaved, The Human Dance, How They Seemed To Move Around Each Other. I Wanted To Play Around With That.

Rejections Are Painful, But Inevitable. They're Every Writer's Rite Of Passage.

A Workshop Is A Way Of Renting An Audience, And Making Sure You're Communicating What You Think You're Communicating. It's So Easy As A Young Writer To Think You're Been Very Clear When In Fact You Haven't.

We're All Capable Of Climbing So Much Higher Than We Usually Permit Ourselves To Suppose.

It's Interesting How Many Science Fiction Writers Get Going When They Are Very Young. I Was On A Program With Greg Bear And He Mentioned That He Had Gotten Started Writing When He Was Eight. And I Began Writing When I Was 10. I Think We're Influenced By The Stuff, We Find It And We Love It And We're Influenced By It....i Know I Collected My First Rejection Slip When I Was 13, And I Went On Collecting Them For A Long Time After That.