My advice is find fuel in failure. Sometimes failure gets you closer to where you want to be.
To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning.
Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
If you have passion for what you do, the company you keep, the life you live, it will be reflected in whatever you create. Passion is like that; it springs out, jumps, unpredictable and unplanned, into everything we touch. If it doesn't, others know. Passion can't be faked and it can't be manufactured. Which is why it is so priceless.
A child born today in the United Kingdom stands a ten times greater chance of being admitted to a mental hospital than to a university. . . This can be taken as an indication that we are driving our children mad more effectively than we are genuinely educating them. Perhaps it is our way of educating them that is driving them mad.
The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.
We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die.
Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile.
When I interview somebody, I look at their resume to see what they've done, who they've worked with, and how many times. If they've gotten repeat work. Those are the kinds of actors I want to hire.
You appreciate things after you lose them.
Making good wine is a skill; making fine wine is an art.