Nobody Believes This, But I

The New York City Ballet Is Obviously Speaking To A Whole New Generation And Bringing It The Same Wonder And Beauty That It Brought Previous Generations

The Moment The Curtain Rose On That First Ballet, I Knew Something Wonderful And New Had Come Into My Life. I Can Still See The First Scene. The Ballet Was Divertimento No. 15

If Things Are Going Well, If The Writing's Coming Along, I Jump Out Of Bed Happy. And If The Previous Day Has Been Bad, I Get Out Of Bed Disgruntled.

You Can Lose A Reader In A Blink Of An Eye. If A Person Is An Engineer Or Chemist Or An Anthropologist Or Whatever, You Spoil The Whole Book For That Person If There's Obviously Ignorance Here. What's Wrong With So Much Science Fiction Is That The Science Is So Lousy That It Isn't Worth Paying Attention To.

I Write From Seven To About Noon. I Used To Try To Write Longer, But I Read And I Found That I Was Always Getting Myself Tired By Working In The Afternoon And Then I Was Just Throwing Out What I Wrote In The Afternoon, So Writing Then Was Counterproductive.