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You think intelligence and grit can succeed by themselves, but I'm telling you that's a pretty illusion.
If you want to see a bunch of happy Americans, go out to opening day at any baseball stadium in the land.
When I act as a translator, I am really doing a performance for my fellow Anglophone readers in the West.
All life is a struggle for existence. Why should it cease to be a struggle if it spreads among the stars?
Things you can't understand are always the hardest to bear. To know why is the first step to consolation.
There's a general consensus of opinion that people in love are apt to look silly -- except to each other.
You ought to be able to grow up in a place and not have to get the hell out of it when you turn eighteen.
I have written two books that have to do with fairy godmothers: 'The Magic Touch' and 'Wishing on a Star.'
Science Fiction will never run out of things to wonder about until the human race ceases to use its brain.
To me, the glass is half-empty some days and half-full on others. Sometimes it's bone-dry. Or overflowing.
One of the things that may appeal to teenagers is that vampires never change - they're frozen in that age.
It is the man who is sure of himself who disregards the opinion of the world. To be sure is to have power.
There's as much revealed in the way a person lifts a glass as in what they say about some political issue.
My mother's family has been in Maine for over 300 years on the same farm. They have a King George III deed.
He ran his finger along my jawline and down my neck. "The wait will be fun, but it's not going to be easy."
I realized I was never going to have any peace with myself unless I made an honest stab at trying to write.
I'll know when the ideas aren't fresh anymore. And I'll know when writing doesn't give me a thrill anymore.
I'm a long-term optimist, and I don't think the problems with our society are from being overly optimistic.
"Anyway... I find what you write interesting." "That's what people usually say when they disagree with it."
One thing that's always helped quell my writerly anxieties is seeking out interviews with writers I admire.
There's good money in true crime, I'm told, and plenty of it lying around, but it's a devil of an art form.
I was 29 when I wrote my first novel. But I was 45 when I quit for good. I was a 16-year overnight success.
I've always felt that any establishment that doesn't welcome me with open arms doesn't deserve my patronage.
By the end of the first decade of writing, I considered myself a confirmed failure in the eyes of the world.
I had no issues with lesbians, but I didn't swing the bat that way, and I kind of resented getting molested.
My fight is not for racial sameness but for racial equality and against racial prejudice and discrimination.
There's nothing quite so stultifying as having someone around who has all the answers-and gives them to you.
We have never had a society that was truly just. Some groups have always benefited at the expense of others.
There are so many people who write really interesting work and try super hard and still don't get published.
I don't make fun of my characters. I just like to laugh and I think people are funny and the world is funny.
I come from a big family of storytellers and, growing up, I liked hearing about the years before I was born.
The most trying moments in human experience were those in which there was nothing to be done except to wait.
Saying spirituality cannot exist without religion is like saying hamburgers cannot exist without McDonald's.
Not merely one of the finest fantasy novels of recent years, but one of the finest ever. Should not be missed
What egotism, what stupid vanity, to suppose that a thing could not happen because you could not conceive it!
Beware of those who have never been bored, depressed, or angry. There is something seriously wrong with them.
The Negro loves America enough to criticize her fundamentally. Most white Americans simply can't be bothered.
The world has become one big grassy knoll, crawling with lone gunmen who think they're the Warren Commission.
When your elders are millennia-old demigods, you’d best take the injunction to respect your elders seriously.
Once a suggestion has entered the general atmosphere of human thought, it is very difficult to neutralise it.
Husbands and wives quarrel a lot more than anyone thinks, and it's oftener about little things than big ones.
But I've found that to talk too much about movies is the kiss of death. If it happens then it happens, is all.
Art-making was part of my daily life from a very young age, and I still love that kind of everyday art-making.
Asimov was the reason why we changed some rules in the SFWA, and I'm not convinced we changed it for the best.
The truth is not delicate and it does not suffer from denial—the truth only dies when true stories are untold.
When you've just made the most complete fool of yourself, you feel the need of a specially high horse to ride.
With my family background - my parents were both activists - writing about culture and politics came naturally.
One of the things that's really important in 'Queen of the Night' is how people communicate with their clothes.
The Kessler Theater is one such gem, an Art Deco beauty … for a slice of real life, there’s always the Kessler.
The evolution of art is not only driven by artists, but by a conversation between the artists and the audience.