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John Sladek

"People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers."

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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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"In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God."
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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."
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"I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear."
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"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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