"I had never really thought of myself..." - Quote by Len Wein

“If a story isn't working, I'm simply unable to finish it. That's what usually tells me something is wrong.”

“These days, it seems that if you're not already in place, you can't get there from here.”

“What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has.”

“The first rule for a good style is to have something to say; in fact, this in itself is almost enough.”

“Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.”

“I've only written one science-fiction book: 'Fahrenheit 451.' That book is a book based on real facts and my hatred of people who destroy books.”

“Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited - that has music and rhythm and time.”

“I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.”

“When I sit down to write a book, I don't ask myself, "How many am I going to sell?"”