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

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" I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it. "

" If you are going to describe the history of animation, you'd look at the early Disney work, then 'Bugs Bunny,' 'Road Runner' and other Warner Brothers theatrical productions. But when you got to 'Rocky and Bullwinkle,' you'd see they were unique: They assumed you had a brain in your head. "

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

" 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. "

" If you want to find the source of much of the music of modern day Russia, you will find it in the incredible compositions of that crazed lunatic Berlioz. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination. "

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

" The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible. "

" 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. "

" My business is to prevent the future. "

" Burroughs is crap. Crap. "

" I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing. "

" 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. "

" My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We're all god. "

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

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

" I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great. "

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

" When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my grandparents' boarding house in Waukegan, Illinois. Those were the years when Hugo Gernsback was publishing 'Amazing Stories,' with vivid, appallingly imaginative cover paintings that fed my hungry imagination. "

" Electronic books are junk. "

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" 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. "

" First grade is very cheap. It's the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don't do it right. "

" I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring. "

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