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"So, I guess the answer to your question is very few people can bring off a novel of the future because it's just so damn hard to make it look like the future."
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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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"Do you genuinely love people? Or at least make an effort to like them? Your first impressions will be made easier and more successful when you start with your heart."
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"People will not remember what you did for living,they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving."
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"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."
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"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."
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"No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."
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"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."
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"There are three categories of people exist in the world; "the wanters", "the wishers" and "the makers."
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"Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually."
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"Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have."
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"And that's another piece of advice I'll give junior writers; when you get to the point where they take you to lunch, let the editor suggest where to go."
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"You no longer have much in the way of knowing what to do in a big, epic novel about the future, because nobody knows what the hell is going to happen."
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"Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don't join writer's clubs and go sit around having coffee reading pieces of your manuscript to people. Write it. Finish it. I set those rules up years ago, and nothing's changed."
People
"The Aztecs believe they started up in what's now New Mexico, and wandered for 10,000 years before they got down into where they are now, in Mexico City. That's a weird legend."
Now
"You see, I used to do a certain amount of market research by going to the local drugstore and seeing what the truck drivers would put up. Now it's all just copies from the latest best-seller list and damn little of anything else."
Now
"And meanwhile, the storytellers like me and Anderson, Silverberg... we tell stories. People like them. They want to know how it comes out, they want to know what the ending is."
People
"Somebody's always getting me to come lecture to their writing class, and I don't talk about writing at all, I talk about the business of making a living at this racket."
Business
"Asimov was the reason why we changed some rules in the SFWA, and I'm not convinced we changed it for the best."
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"So, I guess the answer to your question is very few people can bring off a novel of the future because it's just so damn hard to make it look like the future."
People
"I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away."
Writing
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