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"You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out."
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"I charge thee, fling away ambition. By that sin fell the angels."
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"It was an impossible achievement but that didn't stop me from trying and having fun."
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"To spend your time wanting things is to smother your time for achieving things beyond your expectations."
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"A part of me genuinely wanted to be the worst because I was so sick of everyone fighting to be the best."
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"Set goals to create a clear sense of purpose and direction."
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"Increase must become your natural desire."
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"Whenever God wants to intervene in the affairs of the earth, he intervenes through light, illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding, wisdom."
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"All I am saying is that you should begin to see greatness as something you cannot do without. Begin to see greatness as something that you cannot afford not to have."
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"An ambitious amateur will rise above a complacent master."
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"Discipline is needed in our pursuit."
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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."
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"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."
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"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


"You have to study your field and you have to find out how other people do it, and you have to keep working and learning and practicing and ultimately, you would be able to do it."
People


"Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever."
Science
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