While I'm writing YA, I can't read YA, and the same with adult. I usually only listen to music while I'm writing YA.
Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.
For a large number of problems, there will be some animal of choice, or a few such animals, on which it can be most conveniently studied.
It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.
I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.
Big swings in the wholesale price of electricity are not unusual in the summer, when high demand taxes generators' ability to supply power.
Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.
Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.
I am a gym rat who loves to work out, particularly running, Zumba, yoga, cycling, and kickboxing.
On a regular basis if you're trying to produce something, I think you should work every day and set achievable goals.
More than working toward the book's climax, I work toward the denouement. As a reader and a writer, that's where I find the real satisfaction.
While it can be pleasurable to move speedily through a work of fiction, there's a different sort of pleasure to be had in lingering, backtracking, rereading the same page.
I think I'm more sympathetic to writers, to the work and the struggle and the craft of it, than when I was in graduate school at NYU and was very judgmental.
I can't say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
I wanted to write about the Korean War, but I had no entry into it that made the kind of sense it needs to make for a novelist.
I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.
In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.
The gay revolution began as a literary revolution.
it was a good book and it was an awesome and fun thing to be in color.
To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.
