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" When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer. "
Theodore Sturgeon
Got
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" Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing. "
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" The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication. "
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" The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts. "
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" My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working. "
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" As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me. "
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" Ninety percent of everything is crap. "
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" Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test reality against this fiction. The reader will recognize the world that you're talking about, even though it may be another one altogether. "
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" I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream. "
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" You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one. "
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" I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do. "
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" It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene in itself. "
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" There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do. "
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Lot
Write
" Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words. "
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" Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all. "
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Mind
" Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. "
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" Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life. "
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Life
Me
" There is no way of writing stories that I haven't done. "
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" There was so much that you could do, instead of looking for things that you couldn't do. "
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Much
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" I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it. "
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" The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars. "
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Fact
Company
" In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities. "
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" I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week. "
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" When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it. "
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" You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out. "
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" Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty. "
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" For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have. "
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