I Haven't Made Up My Mind About

Might Have, Could Have, May Have, Should Have—the Haves And Have Nots Reduced To Pointless Possibilities.

Deception Is Mostly A Game We Play With Ourselves.

Testing Of Self Is A Regular Part Of Our Own Lives, So It Seems Natural To Make It A Part Of The Lives Of My Characters, As Well, Albeit On A Much Different Level.

The Reader Wants To See Something Happen Between Pages One And Four Hundred, And Nothing Happens If The Characters Don't Change.

Lester Del Rey Told Me Repeatedly That The First And Most Important Part Of Writing Fiction Is Just To Think About The Story. Don't Write Anything Down. Don't Try To Pull Anything Together Right Away. Just Dream For A While And See What Happens. There Isn't Any Timetable Involved, No Measuring Stick For How Long It Ought To Take. For Each Book, It Is Different. But That Period Of Thinking, Of Reflection, Is Crucial To How Successful Your Story Will Turn Out To Be.