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"Asimov was the reason why we changed some rules in the SFWA, and I'm not convinced we changed it for the best."
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"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die."
"The word "belief" is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it."
"As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning."
"No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conform to Reason or fail to conform. The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it."
"If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason."
"It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into."
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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."
"To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection."
"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."
"I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away."
"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."
"Somebody's always getting me to come lecture to their writing class, and I don't talk about writing at all, I talk about the business of making a living at this racket."
"The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There's always something better to do. Going to a writer's club?"
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