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"We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them."

"Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame."

"All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows."
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"Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test reality against this fiction. The reader will recognize the world that you're talking about, even though it may be another one altogether."


"The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars."


"I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey."


"I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply."


"There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it."


"Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all."


"You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one."
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