"First draft: let it run. Turn all the knobs up to 11. Second draft: hell. Cut it down and cut it into shape. Third draft: comb its nose and blow its hair. I usually find that most of the book will have handed itself to me on that first draft."
"The first draft is just you telling yourself the story."
"In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this."
"[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it!"
"If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you."
"This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic."