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"Writing is a communication."
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"When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it."

"The point,' Ms. Conyers continued, "is that no word had one specific definition. Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life."

"What's the meaning of ignore? You hear somebody, but you never asnwer to him!"

"Why certainly, words possess power. They do! But releasing their magic requires combining and arranging those words in the right order."

"Dialect words - those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel."

"But one only woke people if one knew what one wanted to say to them. And she wanted to say not one thing, but everything."

"Three carefully stringed words are worth more than a book of gibberish. It's not the word count but the impact of those words that counts."

"Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?"

"There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing."
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"Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test reality against this fiction. The reader will recognize the world that you're talking about, even though it may be another one altogether."


"For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have."


"The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication."


"Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing."


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


"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."
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