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"There is no way of writing stories that I haven't done."
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"I have no problem in moving a date one way or another or coming up with a subplot that gets my characters in (or out) of a fix more rambunctiously than the extant records show."
"Scotland consistently produces world-class writers."
"A writer writesregardless...even though...notwithstanding...despite...at any rate...anyhow...nevertheless...in the face of...undeterred by...heedless of...and because.The true writer simply continues to write."
"What I've learned about writing is that sometimes less is more, while often more is grander. And both are true."
"If you want to be a good writer, internalize the good writers; absorb them; integrate with their souls; embrace their minds; mingle with their life stories; in short, merge with them, lose yourself in them!"
"I've always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it's a bit like fucking, which is only fun for amateurs. Old whores don't do much giggling."
"Payment and reserved copyright are at bottom the ruin of literature. Only he who writes entirely for the sake of what he has to say writes anything worth writing. It is as if there were a curse on money: every writer writes badly as soon as he starts writing for gain."
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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."
"For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have."
"The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication."
"Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing."
"Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever."
"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."
"I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply."
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