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" I don't have a computer. A computer's a typewriter. I already have a typewriter. "

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" Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future. "

" I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work. "

" If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you. "

" 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'm not a futurist. "

" When you're older you want to learn from other people. "

" My business is to prevent the future. "

" Journalism keeps you planted in the earth. "

" A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt. "

" If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important. "

" 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. "

" I think we're doing a dreadful job of educating. "

" I'm not a serious person, and I don't like serious people. "

" I've been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys. "

" Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall. "

" All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers. "

" You fail only if you stop writing. "

" It's lack that gives us inspiration. It's not fullness. "

" You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do - and they don't. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don't want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who's the bore of all time. "

" Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the ideas themselves. "

" In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I've worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior. "

" It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid. "

" We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. "

" 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. "

" We've gotta become the Martians. I'm a Martian - I tell you to become Martians. And we've gotta go to Mars and civilize Mars and build a whole civilization on Mars and then move out, 300 years from now into the universe. And when we do that, we have a chance of living forever. "

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

" You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn. "

" The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness. "

" I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. "