I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.
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Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.Theodore Sturgeon
Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test reality against this fiction. The reader will recognize the world that you're talking about, even though it may be another one altogether.
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There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.
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Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.
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Ninety percent of everything is crap.
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There was so much that you could do, instead of looking for things that you couldn't do.
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