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" Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere. "

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" Facts are not interesting to me. "

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" Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together. "

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" You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year. "

" My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off. "

" I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories. "

" I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater. "

" I don't need to be vindicated, and I don't want attention. "

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" Burroughs is crap. Crap. "

" Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. "

" My business is to prevent the future. "

" If you're embarrassed because you have some notion about how men are supposed to behave, and it doesn't include weeping, then you have some personal work to do. "

" The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me. "

" Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it. "

" Touch a scientist and you touch a child. "

" I never ask anyone else's opinion. They don't count. "

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" Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don't do that. "

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" Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things. "

" I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great. "