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"I have more information in one place than anybody in the world."
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"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information."
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"I think around the world, our agents are the best collectors of information you'll find."
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"To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet."
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"When disinformation is running rampant, there are two ignorances that may emerge: the one is actually positive, a sort of pure and intentional emptying of the mind; but the other is of course negative and clogged and polluted."
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"Disinformation is duping. Misinformation is tricking."
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"Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them."
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"It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that."
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"When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation."
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"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself."
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"Since signing with Universal, I have been working closely with Gary Ross, the director, producer and screenwriter. We have spent many hours on the phone, and I've been sending him information and items that have been useful to the writing process."
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"Because Tom Doherty and people like that are not stupid. If they could have streamlined their operation more to get more money out of it, they would have done it. It's not like they're a bunch of idiots."
Money
"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
"In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action."
Action
"We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it."
Science
"There were probably, what, 300 science-fiction members in the SFWA, of whom probably a hundred were active members in the sense that they were selling something every year, or every couple years."
Science
"I have more information in one place than anybody in the world."
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"And that's another piece of advice I'll give junior writers; when you get to the point where they take you to lunch, let the editor suggest where to go."
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"Asimov was the reason why we changed some rules in the SFWA, and I'm not convinced we changed it for the best."
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"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."
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"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?"
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