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Don't 'write what you know.' Make up something new!
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Knows
Something New
Writing
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Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man.
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Men
Eight
Tonight
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Writer's block? Don't worry about it. Either it goes away or you die.
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Block
Dies
Worry
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Big money seeks out the company of its own, for purposes of reproduction.
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Bigs
Company
Purpose
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I suspect that war will become obsolete only when something worse supercedes it.
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Obsolete
Suspect
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There's no such thing as writing about the future. The future hasn't happened yet.
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Happened
Writing
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No good deed goes unpunished. I missed the moon landing by being nice to a stranger.
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Being Nice
Landing
Moon
Stranger
Deed
Good Deed
Missed
Unpunished
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I carry a notebook and write down things to do, and I write out thoughts and stuff like that.
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Notebook
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A good sign that an army has been around too long is that it starts getting top-heavy with officers.
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Army
Heavy
Long
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Political art - not always a contradiction in terms - can destroy institutions, or eat away at them.
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Contradiction
Destroy
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All experience is memory, and so everything you write about is from memory-unless you're writing about typing.
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Memories
Typing
Writing
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The worst advice a young writer can get is "Write what you know." Imagination is more important than experience.
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Imagination
Advice
Writing
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I think any writer keeps going back to some basic theme. Sometimes it's autobiographical. I guess it usually is.
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Autobiographical
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Rationalism doesn't require "belief," only observation. The real, measurable world doesn't care what you believe.
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Believe
Real
World
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No person can escape Einsteinian relativity, and no soldier or veteran can escape the trauma of war's dislocation.
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Dislocation
Relativity
Soldier
Trauma
Veteran
Escape
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Traveling anywhere in the world involves some risk. You could always opt to spend your life cowering under your bed.
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Life World Always
Involves
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Most science fiction is about white men who are 25 to 30, who are very smart, who face a physical problem and solve it.
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Science Fiction
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Maybe war is an inevitable product of human nature. Maybe to get rid of war, we have to become something other than human.
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War
Human Nature
Inevitable
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If I had had a thing like an iPad when I was a kid, then I never would have gotten into the habit of writing things down by hand.
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Habit
Ipad
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I have always valued quiet, and the eternity of it that I face is no more dreadful than the eternity of quiet that preceded my birth.
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Birth
Faces
Quiet
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[Spielberg and I] had a disagreement over what God was....He thought God was Stephen Spielberg, but that thought had never occurred to me.
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Doctors don’t seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene glop.
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Bags
Doctors
Skins
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I met Heinlein after 'The Forever War' had won the Hugo and Nebula Awards. He shook my hand and said he loved the book so much, he'd read it three times.
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Awards
Hugo
Shook
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When I first started working at MIT, back in the '80s, our writing department had a joint cocktail party with the Harvard writing department. It was kind of oil-and-water.
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Department
Harvard
Mit
Cocktail
Joint
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There's something special about writing by hand, writing with a fountain pen, and there's something special about writing into a book, to take a blank book and turn it into an actual book.
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Blank
Fountain
Something Special
Actual
Fountain Pen
Pen
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Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery.
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Adultery
Book
Writing
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Relativity propped it up, at least gave it the illusion of being there…the way all reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted.
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Buddhism
Reality
Way
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I don't think I would have written a combat novel if I had just had peacetime military training. I think, in fact, I probably would have remained a poet and just written a short story every now and then.
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Combat
Military Training
Now And Then
Short Story
Peacetime
Remained
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The 1143-year-long war hand begun on false pretenses and only because the two races were unable to communicate. Once they could talk, the first question was 'Why did you start this thing?' and the answer was 'Me?
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War
Hands
Race
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It's fair to say that white America wouldn't have elected an African-American president without the integrating effect of black music - from Louis Armstrong to hip-hop - and black drama and fiction, commercial as much as 'serious.'
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African American
Armstrong
Black Music
Integrating
Louis
Music Black America
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One hopes that they'll never be able to use mind control weapons, because we're all done for if that happens. I don't want military people, or political people, to have that type of power over those of us who just get by from day to day.
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Weapons
Hopes
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Hemingway was a jerk. I mean he was really a great jerk. He was a good writer, and he did all sorts of things that I would never have the courage to do, but I don't think I'd enjoy being in the same room with him. He's not my kind of person.
Joe Haldeman / Author
Courage
Enjoy
Jerk
Mean
Good Great Never
Person
Writer
Did
Same
Sort
Good Writer
Hemingway
Him
Would
Room
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You'd have to put yourself back in the 1960s to understand how separate from the mainstream of American life soldiers felt themselves to be, because we knew that students and others were demonstrating pretty violently against what we were doing.
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American Life
Demonstrating
Mainstream
Life Yourself Doing
Soldiers
Violently
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I think I would have been a writer, anyhow, in the sense of having written a story every now and then, or continued writing poetry. But it was the war experience and the two novels I wrote about Vietnam that really got me started as a professional writer.
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Now And Then
Vietnam
Anyhow
Professional Writer
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One thing most of us agree on is that the universe exists (people who deny that usually follow some trade other than science), so if some theoretical particle interaction would lead ultimately to the nonexistence of the universe, then you can save a lot of electricity by not trying to demonstrate it.
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Electricity
People
Trying
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One cannot make command decisions simply by assessing the tactical situation and going ahead with whatever course of action will do the most harm to the enemy with a minimum of death and damage to your own men and materiel. Modern warfare has become very complex, especially during the last century. Wars are won not by a simple series of battles won, but by a complex interrelationship among military victory, economic pressures, logistic maneuvering, access to the enemy’s information, political postures—dozens, literally dozens of factors.
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Men
War
Military
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