In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate. - Isaac Asimov

"Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in."

"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die."

"You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist."

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."

"Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers."