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

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

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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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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? "

" Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love. "

" 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. "

" Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being? "

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

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

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

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" If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. "

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

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" The Internet is a big distraction. "