 SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible. |
| In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it. |
| Normally I work out a general summary of what I mean to do, then start writing, and the details can be different from my anticipation. So there is considerable flow, but always within channels. |
| When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour. |
| I hope to read a Harry Potter novel soon, to see what it's all about. I admit to being annoyed that many good light fantasy writers have had trouble getting published, in England and elsewhere, when it is obvious the readers were waiting for us all along. |
| I turned my home state of Florida into the Land of Xanth. |
| I did not know at first that it would be a series; I discovered after the first novel that I had more to say about it, so I did another. And another, and then the readers demanded yet more. |
| I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements. |
| But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do. |
