The Use Of Imaginative Fiction Is To

Love Is The True Condition Of Human Life.

There Are Things That Outweigh Comfort, Unless One Is An Old Woman Or A Cat.

We Broke The World To Make It Whole.

Science Fiction Is Not Predictive; It Is Descriptive.... Prediction Is The Business Of Prophets, Clairvoyants, And Futurologists. It Is Not The Business Of Novelists. A Novelist's Business Is Lying.... Open Your Eyes; Listen, Listen. That Is What The Novelists Say. But They Don't Tell You What You Will See And Hear. All They Can Tell You Is What They Have Seen And Heard, In Their Time In This World, A Third Of It Spent In Sleep And Dreaming, Another Third Of It Spent In Telling Lies.

Prose Writers Are Interested Mostly In Life And Commas.