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

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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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"The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self."

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"With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption."

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"I don't set goals for myself too much, but I'm always trying to write that one great song."

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"Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours."

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"My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals."

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"Nowadays, as soon as a striker scores three goals, everyone starts asking him about it."

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"One of my real goals was to hear someone whistling a song I'd written."

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"A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go."

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

Time

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

Fear

"More immediately, I'm currently working on another Dracula in which there will be connections with ancient Egypt. That's about as far as I want to go in commenting on current work."

Work

"There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons."

Science

"If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do."

Success

"The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief."

Trust

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

History

"I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort."

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"The comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers who've happened on one of my books at some time of stress in their lives, and who actually credit the book with helping them through a bad time. It's happened a few times in forty years."

Time

"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."

World