Nothing. It just finds you a lot more attractive than it does most Humans. What can you do with a beautiful woman that you can’t do with an ugly one? Nothing. It’s just a matter of preference.
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.
I’m a fifty-three-year-old writer who can remember being a ten-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an eighty-year-old writer.
Religion is a dangerous prod, because it can always be misused and get out of hand, but it’s useful for keeping people on the straight and narrow.
Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing group adaptation.
No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that I would take that interest.
Dad decided not to vote for Donner after all. He didn’t vote for anyone. He said politicians turned his stomach.
The differences you perceive between Humans-between groups of Humans-are the result of isolation and inbreeding, mutation, and adaptation to different Earth environments.
Margaret Weylin complained because she couldn’t find anything to complain about.
The big talent is persistence.
Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.
Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.
Consider We are born Not with purpose, But with potential.
Helpless lust and unreasoning anxiety were just part of growing up.
Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and status.
Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.
I think climbing mountains or buildings or whatever has been a really good metaphor for finishing my work. Because no matter how tired you get, no matter how you feel like you can’t possibly do this, somehow you do.
Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They’re every writer’s rite of passage.
To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
Ignorance protects itself, and protected, ignorance grows.