I Was Thinking Of Writing

For Someone To Be Taken Seriously It Was Valuable To Have The Appearance Of Someone Who Deserved To Be Taken Seriously.

If You Don't Care About Science Enough To Be Interested In It On Its Own, You Shouldn't Try To Write Hard Science Fiction. You Can Write Like Ray Bradbury And Harlan Ellison As Much As You Want.

You Can't Trust Reason. We Threw It Out Of The Ad Profession Long Ago And Have Never Missed It.

The Future Depicted In A Good Sf Story Ought To Be In Fact Possible, Or At Least Plausible. That Means That The Writer Should Be Able To Convince The Reader (and Himself) That The Wonders He Is Describing Really Can Come True... And That Gets Tricky When You Take A Good, Hard Look At The World Around You.

The Big New Development In My Life Is, When I Turned 80, I Decided I No Longer Have To Do Four Pages A Day. For Me, It's Like Retiring.