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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Newspaper
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.
- Company
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- Nov 07, 2020
The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars.
- Courage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.
- Become
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- Nov 07, 2020
I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.
- Nov 07, 2020
It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene in itself.
- Outside
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.
- Interesting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.
- Much
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was so much that you could do, instead of looking for things that you couldn't do.
- Monkey
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me.
- Angry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel angry that I can't be hypnotized. I'm not putting it down, and I'm not saying that it doesn't exist. I have talked to a great many people who are very good at it, but so far nobody has ever been able to hypnotize me.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
As far as I'm concerned, I didn't dream - ever.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working.
- Left
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- Nov 07, 2020
For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it.
- Someone
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do.
- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is a communication.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You must write to the people's expertise.
- Loneliness
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- Nov 07, 2020
You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it.
- Nov 07, 2020
When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020