Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
I wrote when I was a young teen, but I didn't put an eye on the available markets until I was seventeen. The next… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
In a novella, a whole lot of crap can happen, and you can build momentum and suspense and leave room for a surprise or three. Stories are cut down to the most essential elements, and novels (this might be an unfair generalization on my part) are big fat clumsy efforts where the reader can snooze for a couple chapters and… — Robert Reed Copy Share
To improve as a player you need to not only know how you plan to win, but ... how might your opponent disrupt your plan. — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
I don't believe people let things slide away. It's the nature of the universe that everything dissolves into oblivion and by every route possible,… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
A community that learns together excels together. We need to form communities that learn together. — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
A favorite science fiction writer of mine is William Faulkner! It was an idea that came to me once, years ago, and I've never… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
I'm astonished how little fright I have of my own imagination. It really does baffle me that I don't get more scared because I'm… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
The burden of intelligence: you can always imagine all those wonderful places where you can never belong. — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
I can't point to a moment or incident that made me see that this business, this putting down words on paper, was what I… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business. — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
“With a whisper, Ash asked Shadow, “But why do you live this way? With him, in this kind of role?” In an Aaback fashion,… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
This is a slow business to have success in. There are exceptions, but for the most part it's kind of like the last writer… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
