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Love great first lines and paragraphs. From The Yiddish Policemen's Union:Nine months Landsman's been flopping at the Hotel Zamenhof without any of hi...more

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I have come to see this fear, this sense of my own imperilment by my creations, as not only an inevitable, necessary part of writing fiction but as vi...more

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Louis Pasteur said, 'Chance favors the prepared mind.' If you're really engaged in the writing, you'll work yourself out of whatever jam you find your...more

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You need three things to become a successful novelist: talent, luck and discipline. Discipline is the one element of those three things that you can c...more

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Literature, like magic, has always been about the handling of secrets, about the pain, the destruction, and the marvelous liberation that can result w...more

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Anyway, it's a pretty good story," I said. "You have to admit.""Yeah?" He crumpled up the Kleenex, having dispatched the solitary tear. "You can have ...more

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I said that I had heard curiosity could be harmful, in particular to cats

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Most science fiction seemed to be written for people who already liked science fiction; I wanted to write stories for anyone, anywhere, living at any ...more

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I HAD known him as a bulldozer, as a samurai, as an android programmed to kill, as Plastic Man and Titanium Man and Matter-Eater Lad, as a Buick Elect...more

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The problem, if anything, was precisely the opposite. I had too much to write: too many fine and miserable buildings to construct and streets to name ...more

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Other than along certain emotional tangents there was little in the book that felt as if it had actually been lived. It was a fiction produced by some...more