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I'm not conniving - that has a pejorative context. I'm not sitting in back rooms making deals. That's not my style.

I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.

I still don't know whether I know how to write a sentence.

An end of something means the beginning of something else, and I don't think that something else is going to be the death of the manned space program.

The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.

Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action.

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.

I have a very clear vision as to what I want at the end of my prep, and then I throw it out and let the creative process take over.