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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'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at…
— Iain Banks
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During depression the world disappears. Language itself. One has nothing to say. Nothing. No small talk, no anecdotes. Nothing can be risked…
— Kate Millett
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Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should…
— Edward Abbey
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Drawing is the necessary beginning of everything [in Art], and not having it, one has nothing.
— Giorgio Vasari
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When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to.
— Carlos Castaneda
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It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to…
— Horace
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One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.
— Andre Malraux
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In short: if one has nothing of value to say, only that which is impure defilement, avoid them. They are masters of…
— Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
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Greatest hits is easy because one has nothing to do - except that we both, Roger and I, felt that new songs…
— Tina Turner
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When one has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.
— Cormac McCarthy
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memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for
— Zelda Fitzgerald
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Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss.
— Sigmund Freud
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