Every step is a first step if it's a step in the right direction.

Shoes, men, coffins; never accept the first one you see.

I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just infested with lots of stuff.

He was, he would be the first to admit, a coward, an incompetent, and not even very good at being a failure.