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"Heinlein never had a best-seller. Even, I think, with Stranger in a Strange Land, I don't think it was actually on the New York Times best seller list."
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"When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system."
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"This land, this water, this air, this planet - this is our legacy to our young."
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"Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged."
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"There are but few naval powers, but there are many land powers."
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"I will burn your city, your land, your self."
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"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea."
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"I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none."
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"The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness."
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"Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all."
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"Protecting all this land, working with the President to establish all these monuments, to, you know... I think the President has a land protection record that's second to no one in this century, maybe Teddy Roosevelt."
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"I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away."
Writing
"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
"The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There's always something better to do. Going to a writer's club?"
Writing
"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
"One the other hand, the publishing trend is ghastly, isn't it? Two hundred and something distributors are now down to 10 or 12? And what's the recruiting drive?"
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"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."
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"I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of."
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"The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability."
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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."
Future
"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."
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