"I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting published."

Thought, People, Fiction

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"I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting published."

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"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."

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"A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure."

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"Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

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"Yeah, but what if you went back and killed your own grandfather?"He stared at me, baffled. "Why the fuck would you do that?"

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"Knowledge is life."

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"I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system."

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Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

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"Knowledge is truth."

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"I guess if one set of my books was selling like Stephen King's, and the other wasn't selling at all, editors would want me to do the ones that sold like Stephen King's. But they seem to be willing to let me pick what I want to do next."

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"Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun."

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"Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history."

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"The Swords were still interesting but by then a cast of characters had started to appear and go on from book to book, and other things about the world began to feel constricting. And there were other things I wanted to do, so I closed the series up and stopped it."

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"I wouldn't like to just do one story or one type of stories all the time."

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"And what we know, or think we know, about the universe of space and time is changing very quickly."

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"I don't know why a computer game can't be an art form just as a puppet show or an opera is. I'm still interested in computer games as something I would like to work on someday."

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"I suspect that writer's block afflicts mainly people who have some stable and ample source of income outside of writing. So far it hasn't been a problem."

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"I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30."

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"At this stage, my chief professional goal is simply to keep on writing and making a living at it."

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