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I deliberately keep myself apart from a lot of stuff; I don't Tweet, I don't do Facebook, I don't blog, and that's…
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I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven.
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I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at…
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My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.
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As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make…
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I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy…
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Writing is like everything else: the more you do it the better you get. Don't try to perfect as you go along,…
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You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history
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Intellectual achievement. The exercise of skill. Human feeling.
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I'm saying with very few exceptions nothing lasts forever, and among those exceptions, no work or thought of man is numbered.
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Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy.
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As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the…
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I grew up in east Tennessee, and everybody knew everybody's business.
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You have to remember that in the microcosm of Cincinnati, Ohio, through northern Kentucky, my father was a big star, still is.…
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History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen.
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I may conclude this chapter by quoting a saying of Professor Agassiz, that whenever a new and startling fact is brought to…
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Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad…
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Everybody knew that being dead could put you in a terrible mood.
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Frazier soaked it all up like a sponge. When they arrived in Manila it was the same story. Ali poured scorn on…
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On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction. In our judgment, it was…
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Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
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