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Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.
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An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more…
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Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work…
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Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience.
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Right up till the 1980s, SF envisioned giant mainframe computers that ran everything remotely, that ingested huge amounts of information and regurgitated…
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The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community - by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for…
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I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe…
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I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach.
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I've learned that I get blocked when my subconscious mind is telling me that I've taken the work in a wrong direction,…
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Some of my ideas were shot down by Lucasfilm because they stepped on territory that has been reserved for the movies. I…
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When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.
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Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer…
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To generalize is to be an idiot.
— William Blake
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An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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In one word, to draw the rule from experience, one must generalize; this is a necessity that imposes itself on the most…
— Henri Poincare
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Why, I wonder, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, and who ought therefore to know…
— Vera Brittain
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But it is just this characteristic of simplicity in the laws of nature hitherto discovered which it would be fallacious to generalize,…
— Bertrand Russell
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Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.
— Charles Sanders Peirce
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Before you generalize, formalize, and axiomatize there must be mathematical substance.
— Hermann Weyl
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Man is made for science; he reasons from effects to causes, and from causes to effects; but he does not always reason…
— James Hutton
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Once you abstract from this, once you generalize and postulate Universals, you have departed from the creative reality, and entered the realm…
— D. H. Lawrence
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To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize in them is infinitely worse.
— Rudolph Valentino
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It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for…
— Margot Asquith
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My art tends toward the literary. My pictures tend toward the outskirts of painting: But why generalize? It is possible to realize…
— James Ensor
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