“First learn to write as if you were already dead and then you will learn to write as if you were still alive.”
“You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.”
“It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.”
“The hardest thing in the world to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn...”
“You will learn more about writing from one hour of reading than you will in six hours of writing.”
“Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about.”