There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.
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I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do.Theodore Sturgeon
There is no way of writing stories that I haven't done.
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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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I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.
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Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.
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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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