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" Hemingway was a jerk. I mean he was really a great jerk. He was a good writer, and he did all sorts of things that I would never have the courage to do, but I don't think I'd enjoy being in the same room with him. He's not my kind of person. "
Courage
Think
Kind
" I carry a notebook and write down things to do, and I write out thoughts and stuff like that. "
Out
Thoughts
Write
" I don't think I would have written a combat novel if I had just had peacetime military training. I think, in fact, I probably would have remained a poet and just written a short story every now and then. "
Training
Now
Fact
" If I had had a thing like an iPad when I was a kid, then I never would have gotten into the habit of writing things down by hand. "
Hand
Down
Habit
" I like the physical action of writing down by hand, and I don't just use it for writing my fiction. "
Hand
Like
Writing
" I met Heinlein after 'The Forever War' had won the Hugo and Nebula Awards. He shook my hand and said he loved the book so much, he'd read it three times. "
Awards
War
Three
" I suspect that war will become obsolete only when something worse supercedes it. "
Become
Worse
Will
" I think any writer keeps going back to some basic theme. Sometimes it's autobiographical. I guess it usually is. "
Sometimes
Think
Theme
" I think I would have been a writer, anyhow, in the sense of having written a story every now and then, or continued writing poetry. But it was the war experience and the two novels I wrote about Vietnam that really got me started as a professional writer. "
War
Experience
Poetry
" It's fair to say that white America wouldn't have elected an African-American president without the integrating effect of black music - from Louis Armstrong to hip-hop - and black drama and fiction, commercial as much as 'serious.' "
Serious
America
Black
" Most science fiction is about white men who are 25 to 30, who are very smart, who face a physical problem and solve it. "
Problem
Men
Most
" No good deed goes unpunished. I missed the moon landing by being nice to a stranger. "
Moon
Being Nice
Good
" No person can escape Einsteinian relativity, and no soldier or veteran can escape the trauma of war's dislocation. "
Escape
Trauma
Soldier
" One hopes that they'll never be able to use mind control weapons, because we're all done for if that happens. I don't want military people, or political people, to have that type of power over those of us who just get by from day to day. "
Control
Power
People
" Political art - not always a contradiction in terms - can destroy institutions, or eat away at them. "
Eat
Political
Always
" There's something special about writing by hand, writing with a fountain pen, and there's something special about writing into a book, to take a blank book and turn it into an actual book. "
Book
Fountain
Writing
" Traveling anywhere in the world involves some risk. You could always opt to spend your life cowering under your bed. "
Bed
Always
World
" When I first started working at MIT, back in the '80s, our writing department had a joint cocktail party with the Harvard writing department. It was kind of oil-and-water. "
Working
Writing
Party
" You'd have to put yourself back in the 1960s to understand how separate from the mainstream of American life soldiers felt themselves to be, because we knew that students and others were demonstrating pretty violently against what we were doing. "
Yourself
Life
American
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