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Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.
When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.
With any kind of sci-fi, the imagination continues, and the world exists, and you create that in your own mind, and it lives in you.
When you're a writer, you never know which of your pieces are going to gain a toehold and which will not, and it's best not to care too much.
Usually, as a fiction writer, you get e-mails saying, 'I liked your book,' or 'I didn't like it.' You don't get something saying, 'I'm really glad this is in the world.'
Writing is a lonely job unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach.
The Internet is no longer the kind of thing where only six guys in the world can build it. Now, you can write a couple of checks and get one of your own.
No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you.
You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.
