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" I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years. "

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" You can't try to do things; you simply must do them. "

" You fail only if you stop writing. "

" I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible. "

" I'm not a futurist. "

" Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, 'The Martian Chronicles.' "

" If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way. "

" I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor. "

" I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. "

" I have a big box of autographs. I took photographs of me and Marlene Dietrich, me and Ida Lupino. I took pictures of Myrna Loy and Joel McCrea in front of the studios. I loved Hollywood. I have 500 autographs and 500 photographs I took. "

" The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it. "

" Look at the Chandra Levy case. It's become a Star Chamber. The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it. "

" Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down. "

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

" You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. "

" The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love. "

" All of my writing is God-given. "

" If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder. "

" If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That's what I've done. "

" The important thing is to be in love with something. "

" If I'd found out that Norman Mailer liked me. I'd have killed myself. "

" Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience. "

" My business is to prevent the future. "

" Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores. "

" You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you. "

" If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it. "

" Bo Derek is a really good friend of mine, and I'd like to spend more time with her. "

" We've gotta reinvest in space travel. We should've never left the moon. "