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Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of...more

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Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

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Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading.

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To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What do we have from the pas...more

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If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies to other selves, other domains,...more

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Most of my reading is rereading.

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The last achievement of the serious admirer is to stop immediately putting to work the energies aroused by, filling up the space opened by, what is ad...more