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Don't mistake a good setup for a satisfying conclusion - many beginning writers end their stories when the real story is just…
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I think the rising and falling popularity of areas like hard SF and far-future SF is, to a considerable extent, the same…
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Its limitations are those of the physical universe: it won't let you play with some really wild ideas that aren't possible, but…
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Usually if nobody hates a piece, nobody loves it, either; and a magazine which sets itself the goal of provoking thought is…
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There may be something to the suggestion about the pace of technological change intimidating writers, though - it's been awfully hard to…
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There are a significant number of people who appreciate what we do, and most of them gravitate to Analog because this is…
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When something hasn't been around much for a while, and one example of it turns up and catches people's eyes, they go…
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This means I must pay close attention to the writing, but equally so to the scientific background - which sometimes means doing…
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I think the international appeal of SF is quite understandable since the kinds of people who like to read it, are, by…
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Ideally, I'd like every issue to include a diverse group of stories that meet the qualifications sketched above, but covering a wide…
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What SF can do better than anything else is show us the range of our possible futures, and what we can do…
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Of course, the way writers think about those things is almost certain to be affected by their own cultural background, and it…
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One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish…
— Samuel Johnson
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You know, if you didn't pay close attention, you'd think we were the only people in Iraq and the only people fighting…
— Johnny Isakson
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It's the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the…
— J. Willard Marriott
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The best of modern therapy is much like a process of shared meditation, where therapist and client sit together, learning to pay…
— Jack Kornfield
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Ian McKellen is brilliant with research. I paid really close attention to the sources he goes to. He's a very, very intelligent…
— Brendan Fraser
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Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam…
— David Trimble
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My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close…
— Eric Allin Cornell
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For one who is a learner and who has not yet come to master their mind, but who dwells aspiring for peace…
— Gautama Buddha
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To listen fully means to pay close attention to what is being said beneath the words. You listen not only to the…
— Peter Senge
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If you pay close attention to each day, you will discover the magic moment.
— Paulo Coelho
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Nevertheless, if we contemplate a society with a somewhat stable wage-unit, with national characteristics which determine the propensity to consume and the…
— John Maynard Keynes
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Be just the way you have always been, with this difference: do not believe any of it, and pay close attention to…
— Cheri Huber
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