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"Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing."
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"Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing."
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"When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer."
Mastery
"The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication."
Learning
"For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have."
Thought
"I feel angry that I can't be hypnotized. I'm not putting it down, and I'm not saying that it doesn't exist. I have talked to a great many people who are very good at it, but so far nobody has ever been able to hypnotize me."
People
"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."
Reason
"There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do."
People
"Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever."
Science
"Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty."
Space
"I sent The World Well Lost to one editor who rejected it on sight, and then wrote a letter to every other editor in the field warning them against the story, and urging them to reject it on sight without reading it."
Reading
"I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey."
Science
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