Beer’s intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it.
Treasure this day and Treasure yourself, truly, neither will ever happen again.
Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.
Any carefully planned thing destroys the creativity. You can’t think your way through a story; you have to live it. So, you don’t build a story; you allow it to explode.
The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.
You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
Most of my stories are ideas in action. In other words, I get a concept, and I let it run away. I find a character to act out the idea. And then the story takes care of itself.
Hold summer in your hand, pour summer in a glass, a tiny glass of course, the smallest tingling sip, for children; change the season in your veins by raising glass to lip and tilting summer in.
You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do-and they don’t. They have prejudices.
Mars is empty now. Five hundred years from now, it’ll be full of people.
You must never name the goal. You must never tell us the target you’re hitting for. You must automatically go toward it without ever naming it.
Everything is generated through your own will power. You don’t have to do anything you don’t want to do. This is a democracy. You go where you want to go and do what you want to do.
I don’t like being up high. It took me three days to get to the top of the Eiffel Tower.
Lone at night, when I was twelve years old, I looked at the planet Mars and I said, ‘Take me home!’ And the planet Mars took me home, and I never came back. So I’ve written every day in the last 75 years. I’ve never stopped writing.
Digression is the soul of wit.
Do what you love, don’t do anything else.
Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.
If you’re reluctant to weep, you won’t live a full and complete life.
You’ve got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.
To solve the drug problem, we have to start at the root – first grade. If a boy has all the toys in his head that reading can give him, and you hook him into science fiction, then you’ve got the future secured.