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" I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.' "

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" If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. "

" The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words. "

" As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope. "

" If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that. "

" To light a candle is to cast a shadow. "

" The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. "

" There are no right answers to wrong questions. "

" Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby. "

" The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so. "

" To oppose something is to maintain it. "

" It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music. "

" What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? "

" It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope. "

" Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new. "

" We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains. "

" If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic. "

" The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself. "

" Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not. "

" I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant. "

" The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next. "

" It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end. "

" When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep. "