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Basic facts tend always to be those most easily overlooked.
Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.
In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.
We've got to believe in our beautiful impossible blueprints.
I treasure solitude. One doesn't have to have human contact.
People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone.
No one's noticed. So much is destroyed, we can't be bothered.
Bed is the best place for reading, thinking, or doing nothing.
All I do is give interviews and spend time being photographed.
Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
I am increasingly afflicted by vertigo where words mean nothing
You remember with what you are at the time you are remembering.
What I had that others didn't was a capacity for sticking to it.
Is there any delight as great as the child's discovering ability?
Music attacks my inner ear like an antagonist, it's not my world.
Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
Artists are the traditional interpreters of dreams and nightmares.
It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months.
I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame.
I am interested only in stretching myself, on living as fully as I can.
If we were to put into practice what we know ... but that is the point.
I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.
A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.
You know, looking at it objectively, I've written one or two good books.
...or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn't want to see.
I've worked hard all my life. You have to if you want to get things done.
Dreams have always been my friend, full of information, full of warnings.
We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.
As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital.
Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroyeth much good.
Living in a small town anywhere means preserving one's self behind a mask.
The art of living in a small town is one of the most difficult to acquire.
I am always being described as having views that I've never had in my life.
... if you have nothing, you are free to choose among dreams and fantasies.
Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.
I don't write well when I'm sitting there sweating about every single phrase.
I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.
You have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
One certainty we all accept is the condition of being uncertain and insecure.
The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms.
There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
I do have a sense, and I've never not had it, of how easily things can vanish.
Anna, there's something very arrogant about insisting on the right to be right.
Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!
I have to conclude that fiction is better at 'the truth' than a factual record.
It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.
Time is the River on which the leaves of our thoughts are carried into oblivion.
God knows why nobody ever learns from the preceding generation - but they don't.
Charity has always been a expression of the guilty consciences of a ruling class.
I hate to sound clichéd, but I do see life as a journey. How else can you see it?