Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The most important lesson in the writing trade is that any manuscript is improved if you cut away the fat. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Heinlein's Rules for Writers Rule One: You Must Write Rule Two: Finish What Your Start Rule Three: You Must Refrain From Rewriting,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I took up writing because I needed money. And I continued to write because it's safer than stealing and easier than working. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized. Or even cured. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
But if you didn't have more urgent things to do after supper [in boot camp], you could write a letter, loaf, gossip,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I'm afraid of coaching, of writer's classes, of writer's magazines, of books on how to write. They give me centipede trouble -… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“As for logic and internal consistency, these mundane rules do not apply to sacred writings and never have...” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
No storyteller has been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
People who are busy and happy don't write diaries; they are too busy living. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“The most difficult speculation for a science fiction writer to undertake is to imagine correctly the *secondary* implications of a new factor.… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan? — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If we blow ourselves up we will do it by misapplication of science; if we manage to keep from blowing ourselves up, it will… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Some people are ants by nature; they have to work, even when it’s useless. Few people have a talent for constructive laziness.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“I tried to dig out of the computer a call directory for Luna. But it was still sulking. I could not get it to… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
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