I think I just felt a sadness at some points in my career that what is available to a straight writer is not available to a gay writer.
The great thing about living until you get a bit older if you are a writer, and especially a poet, is that you have more life to reflect on. And I think that if I am better now - and I think that I am probably better than I was - is because that I simply have more to think about, more to get under control, more to understand.
One of the most insidious myths in American wine culture is that a wine is good if you like it. Liking a wine has nothing to do with whether it is good. Liking a wine has to do with liking that wine, period. Wine requires two assessments: one subjective, the other objective. In this it is like literature. You may not like reading Shakespeare but agree that Shakespeare was a great writer nonetheless.
I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.
The meaning. . . of a writer will be found not just in what he intends to say, or what he does literally say, but in the effect of his writing on living beings.
I'm at the mercy of others because I'm not a director. I'm not a producer. I'm not a writer.
I have a great advantage: I write from the perspective of my own voice. I'm not copying anyone's voice. It's my voice. I have the advantage of being a writer of English as a second language.
I've always wanted to write a novel. It's overwhelming and daunting, and it's one of those things that every writer fantasizes about doing.
Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.
I don't think of myself as a writer.
I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.
I believe that every writer evolves with every successive novel. I view myself as work-in-progress.