When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.

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You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.

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For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have.

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My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working.

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I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream.

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Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing.

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Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.

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There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it.

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The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.

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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.

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