I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.
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I'd never been published when I was young.Jack Vance
Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a very talented writer, but his imagination was wonderful.
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It's just I wanted to get myself in a line of work where I didn't have a boss, where I didn't have to show up any place at any particular time.
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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
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I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.
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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.
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