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" You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" If I'd found out that Norman Mailer liked me. I'd have killed myself. "

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

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

" I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories. "

" You fail only if you stop writing. "

" The Internet is a big distraction. "

" Burroughs is crap. Crap. "

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

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

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

" There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people. "

" We are anthill men upon an anthill world. "

" 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. "

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

" All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament. "

" 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. "

" I have a big box of autographs. I took photographs of me and Marlene Dietrich, me and Ida Lupino. I took pictures of Myrna Loy and Joel McCrea in front of the studios. I loved Hollywood. I have 500 autographs and 500 photographs I took. "

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

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

" Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience. "

" 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?' "

" We're all dreamers. "

" 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. "

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

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