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In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.

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I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations. But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war.

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My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.

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The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.

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The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.

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One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.

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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

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I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.

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As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.

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It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: August 24th, 1951

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