If you write something, and you believe in it, you'd like to see sixty million people moved by it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If I ever wrote a book, people would never believe it.
A story in Asimov's is read by hundreds of thousands of people.
With me, writing is 60% imagination, 30% people you know and 10% you don't know where it comes from.
Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.
That's what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there.
I was making projections about 'Humans of New York,' back when I had zero followers, that made all my friends and family roll their eyes. I'd throw out these huge numbers: 'One day, a million people are gonna be looking at this. Trust me.' And even those wild, wild numbers I was throwing out have just been smashed. So, it's a good feeling.
When I write a scientific treatise, I might reach 100 people. When the 'National Geographic' covers a project, it communicates about plants and fish and underwater technology to more than 10 million people.
No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.
If I write something set 60 years in the future, I am going to have to explain how humanity got there, and that's becoming quite a big job.
When I write, I imagine places more than people.