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There's something special about writing by hand, writing with a fountain pen, and there's something special about writing into a book, to take a blank book and turn it into an actual book.

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No good deed goes unpunished. I missed the moon landing by being nice to a stranger.

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Most science fiction is about white men who are 25 to 30, who are very smart, who face a physical problem and solve it.

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Traveling anywhere in the world involves some risk. You could always opt to spend your life cowering under your bed.

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No person can escape Einsteinian relativity, and no soldier or veteran can escape the trauma of war's dislocation.

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I don't think I would have written a combat novel if I had just had peacetime military training. I think, in fact, I probably would have remained a poet and just written a short story every now and then.

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I suspect that war will become obsolete only when something worse supercedes it.

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One hopes that they'll never be able to use mind control weapons, because we're all done for if that happens. I don't want military people, or political people, to have that type of power over those of us who just get by from day to day.

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Hemingway was a jerk. I mean he was really a great jerk. He was a good writer, and he did all sorts of things that I would never have the courage to do, but I don't think I'd enjoy being in the same room with him. He's not my kind of person.

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I met Heinlein after 'The Forever War' had won the Hugo and Nebula Awards. He shook my hand and said he loved the book so much, he'd read it three times.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: June 9th, 1943

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