"I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast."

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"To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost."

Barbara Tuchman, American Historian

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"I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in."

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"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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"When you confidently defend fiction, think about reality also."

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

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Jaachynma N.E. Agu, Nigerian Author

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"Words without thoughts never to heaven go."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book."

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"I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in."

"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations."

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"I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all."

"It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance."

"Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write."

"I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book."

"Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it."

"The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway."

"I never worked in an office in my life."