"You no longer have much in the way of knowing what to do in a big, epic novel about the future, because nobody knows what the hell is going to happen."

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"You no longer have much in the way of knowing what to do in a big, epic novel about the future, because nobody knows what the hell is going to happen."

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"If a man carefully examines his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Future, Thought, Well-Being, Examination

"Science Non Fiction/ Fantasy = Future."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"Don't waste our children's future on man's past."

Anthony T. Hincks, British Writer

Future, Children, Hope, Responsibility

"Trying to see the face of the future? Know ye not that the future has infinite faces?"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"However much things have been said in the past, there will be always something new to be said in the future!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"I was asked the other day in which era I would choose to live. As a historical novelist, it comes up sometimes. As a woman I'd have to say I'd like to live in the future - I want to see where these centuries of change are leading us."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

Future, Choice, Change, History

"Since many things we see were once an idea, let us create good ideas today because they will be the realities of tomorrow! When you create an idea, do not forget that you shape the future! Idea is your God side! With ideas, you can change the universe, but only with very great ideas!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Future, Inspirational, Truth, Wisdom

"Since the future is unknown, nobody can really know where he is going! When asked, tell them you know not where you are going! You can only say where you wish to go!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"Wishes are memories coming from our future!"

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

Future, Memories, Life, Hope

"But then the life spans started getting longer, and people started having more and more future, and so they spent more time thinking about it. About the future. And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future..."

John Green, American Author

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"Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don't join writer's clubs and go sit around having coffee reading pieces of your manuscript to people. Write it. Finish it. I set those rules up years ago, and nothing's changed."

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"Because Tom Doherty and people like that are not stupid. If they could have streamlined their operation more to get more money out of it, they would have done it. It's not like they're a bunch of idiots."

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"I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away."

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"To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection."

Doubt, Necessity, Reflection

"We're basically after Joe's beer money, and Joe likes his beer, so you better make sure that what you give him is at least as pleasurable to him as having his six-pack of beer would be."

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"And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary reasons, which is neither entertaining nor great literature."

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"And meanwhile, the storytellers like me and Anderson, Silverberg... we tell stories. People like them. They want to know how it comes out, they want to know what the ending is."

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"Heinlein never had a best-seller. Even, I think, with Stranger in a Strange Land, I don't think it was actually on the New York Times best seller list."

Land,

"And that's another piece of advice I'll give junior writers; when you get to the point where they take you to lunch, let the editor suggest where to go."

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"So, I guess the answer to your question is very few people can bring off a novel of the future because it's just so damn hard to make it look like the future."

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