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Writers are not always right however, but then again, I've been on shows where the actors have complete control and change everything and it's terrible.

There's a certain possessiveness of writers sometimes.

Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.

I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love.

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.

The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.

Writers are always selling somebody out.

The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.

Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon.

The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.

I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.

Young writers should definitely research the current sounds and styles.

I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.

I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense that we are all, as writers, part of something which is more powerful than any of us.

The writers are writing human beings, and they're writing about the human condition and how difficult it is to function in that condition. I think it's one of the charms of the show, the idea of redemption and working towards becoming better people, for everybody involved.

I think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect.

I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published.

Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first, which then makes a US edition more likely.

Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times.