Words are the wings both intellect and imagination fly on.

When I can use prose as I do in writing stories as a direct means or form of thinking, not as a way of saying something I know or believe, not as a vehicle for a message, but as an exploration, a voyage of discovery resulting in something I didn’t know before I wrote it, then I feel that I am using it properly.

Fantasy has, in fact, become quite a business. There are people who turn out unicorns by the yard. Capitalism flourishes in Elfland.

How to read a poem is aloud.

Reading is a means of listening. Reading is not as passive as hearing or viewing. It’s an act: you do it.

H. G. Wells.

Jorge Luis Borges,

Science fiction lends itself readily to imaginative subversion of any status quo.

Art reveals something beyond the message. A story or poem may reveal truths to me as I write it. I don’t put them there. I find them in the story as I work.