Life's like a movie write your own ending. Keep believing keep pretending.

You must understand the whole of life not just one little part of it. That is why you must read that is why you must look at the skies that is why you must sing and dance and write poems and suffer and understand for all that is life.

Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers and I still don't think I do. I write stories about women.

I do have two data identities. I have my name Bruce Sterling which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have my other name which is my legal name under which I own property and vote.

Even in the beginning when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song as one songwriter to another I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad.

I write in longhand on yellow legal pads.

You know my first three or four drafts you can see are on legal pads in long hand. And then I go to a typewriter and I know everybody's switching to a computer. And I'm sort of laughed at.

I mean in some cases with libel laws you know they can write things about people who have no course of action because they can't afford to take legal action against them.

The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.

Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style to recognize the work of an artist or school to see or hear in new ways is as cognitive an achievement as learning to read or write or add.