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Now that I have you thoroughly confused, let me pause to hear your own dismayed cry.
You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year
The moon is a good, solid base to build a space travel organization in the community.
You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.
That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.
You don’t question Providence. If you can’t have the reality, a dream is just as good.
For about 150 days a year in Venice, the sun doesn't show through the mist until noon.
Edgar Allen Poe really started me when I was 8. I fell in love with everything of his.
Notoriety and a fat bank balance must come after everything else is finished and done.
Kerosene," he said, because the silence had lengthened, "is nothing but perfume to me.
The gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly.
If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That's what I've done.
I don't like being up high. It took me three days to get to the top of the Eiffel Tower.
Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them.
So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
The automobile is the most dangerous weapon in our society - cars kill more than wars do.
You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.
I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible.
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.
Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don't do that.
Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.
There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel.
Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.
I'll hold on to the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning.
Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.
May you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.
I don't like to go to theaters, because I don't like the way most people behave in theaters.
You don't have to worry about the future, you don't worry about the past - you just explode.
You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you.
What should I do?" "Throw up in your typewriter every morning." "Yeah." "Clean up every noon.
I'm being ironic. Don't interrupt a man in the midst of being ironic, it's not polite. There!
Get the big truth first. If you get the big truth, the small truths will accumulate around it.
Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future.
The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers.
Why would you clone people when you can go to bed with them and make a baby? C'mon, it's stupid.
I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck.
If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.
I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.
Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.
Do three things each night before you go to bed: read a poem, read a short story, read an essay.
How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike.
How to feel your way toward something honest, hidden under the trapdoor on the top of your skull.
The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.
Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.
Do what you love and love what you do. Don’t do anything for money. Everything should be for love.
Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.
You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.
Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course.