Her startling and powerful works have redefined the boundaries of contemporary science fiction. Disturbing, revealing, and provocative, this remarkable collection of short fiction brings together some of the best work of an incomparable writer whose ability to amaze, confound, and enlighten never fails. But that changed in the early 1980s when she began writing full time. Today, Willis is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed authors publishing in the genre, having already collected six Nebula Awards, five Hugo Awards and the John W. Campbell Award. Last week Willis sat down with Science Fiction Weekly to answer questions submitted by our readers.
Writers are too neurotic to ever be happy.
It is my belief that everything you need to know about the world can be learned in a church choir. I hope some of those things show up in my own writing. Your short stories are incredibly short and to the point. And it's not a question of a rough draft. It's many, many notes and drafts and cross-outs and retries.