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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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"Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life."
Life
"You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one."
Observation
"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."
Deception
"There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it."
People
"I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream."
Life
"When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it."
Learning
"There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do."
People
"You must write to the people's expertise."
People
"Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever."
Science
"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."
Fiction
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