A Russian child asked his mother : "does God know we don't believe in Him?"
I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting published.
Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history.
If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do.
My gut feeling is that paper and ink are going to be with us for a long time yet, and in substantial quantities, though certainly books are now going to be available in other forms.
And what we know, or think we know, about the universe of space and time is changing very quickly.
I suspect that writer's block afflicts mainly people who have some stable and ample source of income outside of writing. So far it hasn't been a problem.
The reason [drummers] call things "unison", and they sound unison, is because you actually play two different tempos. . . like you're a little sharp, or a little flat; it's so slight that they call it "unison", but it's not unison.
Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.
There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit.
You've got to be frugal. If you want to make one peso and you spent two, you'll never make it. You must be very stupid if you don't know what you should save on.