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" Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken. "
Among
Most
Never
" As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times. "
Alright
You
Long
" But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore. "
Change
Work
Writing
" Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas. "
First
Everything
Important
" God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause. "
Free
Environment
God
" I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt. "
Grateful
Am
Civilization
" I buy way too many books. "
Way
Books
Too
" I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people. "
Believe
People
I Believe
" I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky. "
Writing
Money
Feel
" I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more. "
Live
More
Only
" I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father. "
Children
Am
I Am
" I listen to music constantly while writing. "
Writing
While
Music
" In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now. "
Place
Time
Study
" In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. "
Love
Moment
Defeat
" I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas. "
Ideas
Important
New
" I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations. But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war. "
War
Me
Say
" It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes. "
Middle
Class
Luxury
" I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration. "
I Wonder
Sometimes
Wonder
" Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books. "
Behavior
Against
Should
" Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. "
Communication
Truth
Most
" My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer. "
College
Training
Theatre
" My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer. "
Book
You
Work
" Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief. "
People
Wonder
Why
" One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself. "
Own
Think
Surprises
" The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe. "
Job
Best
Day
" The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible. "
Stupid
Knowledge
Foundation
" The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell. "
Lies
Always
Stories
" The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you. "
Life
You
Training
" The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make. "
Control
Choice
God
" There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane. "
Say
Acting
Citizen
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