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"My first thought was always a cigarette. It still is, but I haven't cheated."
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"Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track."
"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."
"Those 'back burner' thoughts, the ones the brain isn't quite sure about yet, may cook the slowest yet they often manage to be the tastiest when they come out."
"The survival of poor opinions can make a thinker feel as though he is failing humanity."
"Never underestimate the power of a simple thought."
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"Stories where the author has known very little, but run a computer program that tells him how to construct a planet, and looked up specific things about rocketry and so on, really suck."
"I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette."
"The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For me, it's like retiring."
"I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time."
"You look at the world around you, and you take it apart into all its components. Then you take some of those components, throw them away, and plug in different ones, start it up and see what happens."
"People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research."
"In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it."
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