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Somebody's always getting me to come lecture to their writing class, and I don't talk about writing at all, I talk about the business of making a living at this racket.

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So, I guess the answer to your question is very few people can bring off a novel of the future because it's just so damn hard to make it look like the future.

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One the other hand, the publishing trend is ghastly, isn't it? Two hundred and something distributors are now down to 10 or 12? And what's the recruiting drive?

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In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action.

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I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away.

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I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of.

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I have more information in one place than anybody in the world.

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Heinlein never had a best-seller. Even, I think, with Stranger in a Strange Land, I don't think it was actually on the New York Times best seller list.

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Because Tom Doherty and people like that are not stupid. If they could have streamlined their operation more to get more money out of it, they would have done it. It's not like they're a bunch of idiots.

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Asimov was the reason why we changed some rules in the SFWA, and I'm not convinced we changed it for the best.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: August 7th, 1933

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