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Writing is a communication.
Nothing is always absolutely so
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
You must write to the people's expertise.
An old-shoe lover loves loving old shoes.
As far as Im concerned, I didnt dream - ever.
As far as I'm concerned, I didn't dream - ever.
I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.
Morals: They're nothing but a coded survival instinct!
The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.
There is no way of writing stories that I haven't done.
When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it.
In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.
If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?
An ethic isn't a fact you can look up. It's a way of thinking.
I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.
Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.
The best science fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field.
Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose?
I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it.
Anybody can do anything he wants to if he wants to do it badly enough.
It's the Simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that.
That's fairly common. We don't believe anything we don't want to believe.
Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.
Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.
I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.
Sure, 90% of science fiction is crud. That's because 90% of everything is crud.
Even to loneliness there is an end, for those who are lonely enough, long enough.
I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do.
No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs.
There was so much that you could do, instead of looking for things that you couldn't do.
Ask Baby can you be truly part of someone you love." "He says only if you love yourself.
There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.
Ninety percent of SF [science fiction] is crud, but then, ninety percent of everything is crud.
It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene in itself.
There's this about a farm: when the market's good there's money, and when it's bad there's food.
When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.
You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.
Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.
For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have.
My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working.
I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream.
Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing.
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.
Do you know what morals are? Morals are an obedience to rules that people laid down to help you live among them.
Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that's performing the logic.
The vast majority of fiction is written to markets and to this damnable business we have nowadays of categorizing everything.
There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it.
The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.