There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.
Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I’ve had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam… and I’m not happy to be right in all of those cases.
I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you’re actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I’ll bet you’ll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.
I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft contained references absolutely incomprehensible to anyone who hasn’t lived here for several years.
For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
There are people who must spend huge amounts of time composing these online diatribes against me, all about how disgusting and terrible I am and how no one should ever read my books, and it’s not enough for them to hate me, they can’t stand the fact that ANYONE likes me!
I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
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