A Work Of Art Is An Act

The Single Most Important Lesson Of Effective Communication Is This: Focus On Clarity. Concentrate On Precisions. Don’t Worry About Constructing Beautiful Sentences. Beauty Comes From Meaning, Not Language. Accuracy Is The Most Effective Style Of All.

You Can Tell A Lot About A Civilization By The Quality Of The People Found In Its Jails.

I Had Always Been Fascinated By The Whole Idea That Australia Was This Different Ecology And That When Rabbits And Prickly Pears And Other Things From Europe Were Introduced Into Australia, They Ran Amok.

Imagine Yourself In The Scene. See What There Is To Be Seen. Listen To The Sounds. Touch The World. Smell The Air. Taste It. Use All Of Your Senses. Then Evoke Those Experiences For The Reader. If You Give The Audience The Flavor, They'll Flesh Out The Moment In Their Own Imaginations.

The Computer Has Evolved Into A Partner, A Tool, And An Environment--not Just In Science Fiction, But In The Public Consciousness As Well. Computers Are No Longer Malevolent Iron Brains That Manufacture Tyrannical And Oppressive Answers; They Are Not A Way To Think, They Are A Place From Which To Think. The Computer Is An Environment In Which Answers Can Be Sought, Created, Manipulated And Developed.