"The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars."

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"The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars."

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"When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer."

Mastery

"Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life."

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"The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication."

Learning

"I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it."

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"Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words."

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"I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream."

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"For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have."

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"Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test reality against this fiction. The reader will recognize the world that you're talking about, even though it may be another one altogether."

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"In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities."

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"I feel angry that I can't be hypnotized. I'm not putting it down, and I'm not saying that it doesn't exist. I have talked to a great many people who are very good at it, but so far nobody has ever been able to hypnotize me."

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