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"After all we did for Britain, selling that corduroy and making it swing, all we got was a bit of tin on a piece of leather."

"Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling products I didn't believe in."

"A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well."

"The simplest definition of advertising, and one that will probably meet the test of critical examination, is that advertising is selling in print."

"But in terms of the code by which we go to market - it's not telling kids to supersize, we're not selling them, generally, products, in the advertising we do to them."

"I'm all for selling books, but when guys are burning my house down, that's where I draw the line."
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"I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing."


"I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could."


"Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated."


"I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like Star Wars and Star Trek which all go excellent in their own way."


"A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind."


"As far as the mechanics go, working with other people on received ideas was for me a very interesting technical problem. I can't say that any of my collaborations engaged my heart, but they engaged the craftsman in me."


"There is a great deal of cyberpunk that I admire, especially the work of William Gibson which I think is excellent. Somehow he speaks from his own heart and cyber punk is what comes out."
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