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

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" If an idea isn't exciting, you shouldn't do it. "

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

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

" There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. "

" My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book. "

" Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it. "

" I don't do research. I never have. "

" There's no one way to be creative. Any old way will work. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I find it amusing that I'm on the Internet now, because I've criticized it, but mainly I've criticized it on the basis of, 'What are you going to do with it?' "

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

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

" When I was born in 1920, the auto was only 20 years old. Radio didn't exist. TV didn't exist. I was born at just the right time to write about all of these things. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm never going to go to Mars, but I've helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars. "

" I have fun with ideas; I play with them. "

" 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. "

" You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. "