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" In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially. "

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" 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. "

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

" After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there burned into the wall from the intensity of the bomb. The people were gone, but their shadows remained. "

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

" My favorite writers have been those who've said things well. "

" 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'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. "

" All of my writing is God-given. "

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

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

" When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. "

" I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her? "

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

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

" I don't control my writing - it controls me. "

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

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

" I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off. "

" We are anthill men upon an anthill world. "

" We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now. "

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

" I don't believe in colleges and universities. "

" I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me. "

" We're all dreamers. "

" I've only written one science-fiction book: 'Fahrenheit 451.' That book is a book based on real facts and my hatred of people who destroy books. "

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

" Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for. "

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

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