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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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"The most tragic thing about the future is that it may not come into being!"
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"The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do."
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"Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future."
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"In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich."
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"When your dream comes true, have another one! Your dream-box must never remain empty!"
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"Simeon had to agree that his future plans, although quite grand, were like pictures painted in fog. Nothing he could put his finger on. No dream ever remained unchanged long enough to take on any weight or substance, just a notion of something better waiting for him somewhere in the future."
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"It doesn't matter what you did, all what matters is what you want to do, when, where and how you are going to do it."
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"As we become the distant past, you become a future few of us would have imagined."
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"If silence of the days and darkness of the nights is the indicator of the doomsday, we are already in it."
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"Since the future is unknown, no path can take you to the known!"
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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."
Writing
"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."
People
"You see, I used to do a certain amount of market research by going to the local drugstore and seeing what the truck drivers would put up. Now it's all just copies from the latest best-seller list and damn little of anything else."
Now
"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."
Future
"To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection."
Doubt
"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."
Money
"We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it."
Science
"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."
Literature
"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."
People
"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."
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