You Play Your Cards So Close To

When I Was A Kid And A Young Man I Read Everything. When I Was About 23, I Was Incredibly Lucky In That I Wound Up With Several Book Review Columns, Which Meant That I Had To Read Huge Amounts Of Stuff That Was Outside My Experience And Outside My Comfort Zone. I Think Every Young Writer Should Be Forced To Read The Kind Of Stuff They Would Not Normally Read For Pleasure.

For Me, Closing Libraries Is The Equivalent Of Eating Your Seed Corn To Save A Little Money.

People Populate The Darkness; With Ghosts, With Gods, With Electrons, With Tales.

I Very Rarely Want To Go Back And Fix Things, Because I'm Much More Interested In The Next Thing, And In Taking What I Learned From The Things That Don't Work, And Applying Them To New Things That May Work.

I Felt Very Much Like A Hooker Who Had Just Been Told She Was A Lady Of The Evening.