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"I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles because of the SF connection."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."
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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."
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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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"Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name."
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"We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out at the public library - and anyway, I told myself stories."
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"Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing."
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"I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read."
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"The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive."
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"I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles because of the SF connection."
People
"I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear."
Time
"To my mind, the best SF addresses itself to problems of the here and now, or even to problems which have never been solved and never will be solved - I'm thinking of Philip K. Dick's work here, dealing with questions of reality, for example."
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"This is mainly because I spend a lot of time writing and so don't have much time to read; I hate to waste that time reading what may turn out to be junk food for the mind, when there's so much real writing to be read."
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"I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world."
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"The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate."
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