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The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway.

Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a very talented writer, but his imagination was wonderful.

There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who had some influence on me, but I couldn't tell you what it was.

This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late.

I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.

As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.

But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it.

But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.

But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.

But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.

I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do.

I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.

I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.

A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.

I never worked in an office in my life.