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" You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you're nuts, and you're not as popular with girls as you should be. "

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

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" You fail only if you stop writing. "

" The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness. "

" The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me. "

" Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things. "

" There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. "

" We are an impossibility in an impossible universe. "

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" Look at the Chandra Levy case. It's become a Star Chamber. The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" All of us, no matter how we look born into this world, feel something like the Hunchback. It doesn't matter if you have a beautiful face or not. "

" Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together. "

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

" Everybody has forgotten that Russia helped start the Second World War. "

" I never ask anyone else's opinion. They don't count. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off. "

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

" If an idea isn't exciting, you shouldn't do it. "