"Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it."
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"Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!"
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"I believe the universe created us - we are an audience for miracles. In that sense, I guess, I'm religious."
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"If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it."
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"Any carefully planned thing destroys the creativity. You can't think your way through a story; you have to live it. So, you don't build a story; you allow it to explode."
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"There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those kinds of films."
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"There is only one type of story in the world-your story."
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"Most of my stories are ideas in action. In other words, I get a concept, and I let it run away. I find a character to act out the idea. And then the story takes care of itself."
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"Everything is generated through your own will power."
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"The ability to fantasize is the ability to survive, and the ability to fantasize is the ability to grow"
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"If you have to ask yourself whether or not you love a girl or you love a boy, forget it. You don't."
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"Think of Shakespeare and Melville and you think of thunder, lightning, wind. They all knew the joy of creating in large or small forms, on unlimited or restricted canvases. These are the children of the gods."
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"Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen."
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"I love writing, it's the center of my life. If you don't love what you do, you'd better find something else to love. Otherwise, you don't have a reason for living."
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"If I was ever a rare fine summer person, that's long ago. Most of us are half-and-half. The August noon in us works to stave off the November chills. We survive by what little Fourth of July wits we've stashed away. But there are times when we're all autumn people."
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"I want your loves to be multiple. I don't want you to be a snob about anything. Anything you love, you do it."
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"Why love the woman who is your wife? Her nose breathes in the air of a world that I know; therefore I love that nose. Her ears hear music I might sing half the night through; therefore I love her ears. Her eyes delight in seasons of the land; and so I love those eyes. Her tongue knows quince, peach, chokeberry, mint and lime; I love to hear it speaking. Because her flesh knows heat, cold, affliction, I know fire, snow, and pain. Shared and once again shared experience."
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"Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading."
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"To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes."
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"If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way."
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