A Peasant That Reads Is

Literature Is The Adventure. It's The Story, It's The Fight, It's People Falling In Love, It's People With Deep Personality Disorders Who Succeed Anyway Beyond Themselves. That's What Great Literature Is.

I Have Never Thought That I Have Sacrificed Anything Being A Writer. That Might Not Be True, Maybe I Have Sacrificed Something. Maybe I've Given Something Up, But I Can't Think Of It.

Love Makes You Blind To Your Own Survival. And If It Doesn't Then It's Not Love At All.

One Wouldn't Want To Say That What Makes A Good Writer Is The Number Of Books That The Writer Wrote Because You Could Write A Whole Number Of Bad Books. Books That Don't Work, Mediocre Books, Or There's A Whole Bunch Of People In The Pulp Tradition Who Have Done That. They Just Wrote... And Actually They Didn't Write A Whole Bunch Of Books, They Just Wrote One Book Many Times.

Science Fiction [is] The Kind Of Writing That Prepares Us For The Necessary Mutations Brought About In Society From An Ever Changing Technological World And As A Result. The Mainstream Hasn’t Excluded Sf; The Mainstream Has Excluded Itself. No One Told Jules Verne He Was A Science Fiction Writer, But He Invented The 20th Century.