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"I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30."
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"To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging, men buy fast cars."
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"I can't wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. We'd be laughing and having a good time and getting loopy on our prescription drugs. Driving golf carts around. I can't wait."
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"American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age."
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"I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows."
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"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"
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"Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?"
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"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."
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"If youth knew; if age could."
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"Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought."
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"For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day."
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"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
"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."
Selling
"Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity."
Books
"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
"The advice would be the same for any kind of fiction. Keep writing, and keep sending things out, not to friends and relatives, but to people who have the power to buy. A lot of additional, useful tips could be added, but this is fundamental."
Friendship
"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
"I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30."
Age
"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."
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