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- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who had some influence on me, but I couldn't tell you what it was.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway.
- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.
- Something
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- Nov 07, 2020
So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it in the story and it doesn't fit. So I just throw it away. I've done that countless times.
- Gush
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- Nov 07, 2020
Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd never been published when I was young.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.
- Fast
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never worked in an office in my life.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never made lots of money at it, but I sold enough.
- Other
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- Nov 07, 2020
I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.
- Computers
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it.
- Mentioned
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- Nov 07, 2020