First Quote by Roger Zelazny

There is Harlan Ellison the human being, who takes a crap a couple of times a day, and who farts, and who eats chicken…

— Harlan Ellison

It was really difficult for guys like me who were just young punks to come in and sell a funny idea.

— Butch Hartman

Regis can do anything these young punks can do. I fit right in there with my Fox people. They want Regis to dance, Regis…

— Regis Philbin

No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.

— Dan Simmons

“Listen, Stephen King used to write in the washroom of his trailer after his kids went to sleep. Harlan Ellison wrote in the stall…

— Bernard Schaffer

And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I…

— Isaac Asimov

“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant. —Harlan Ellison”

— Tomasz Tunguz

“In the shower today I tried to think about the best advice I'd ever been given by another writer. There was something that someone…

— Neil Gaiman

If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science fiction. You…

— Frederik Pohl

Different influences at different times in my career, and some have stayed with me more, some less. Chester Himes. Ralph Dennis, who wrote a…

— Joe R. Lansdale

“Having to amuse myself during those earlier years, I read voraciously and widely. Mythic matter and folklore made up much of that reading—retellings of…

— Charles de Lint

“Now begin in the middle, and later learn the beginning; the end will take care of itself. – Harlan Ellison”

— Dathan Auerbach