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Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.

~Theodore Sturgeon

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In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.

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Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.

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Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.

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I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.

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Ninety percent of everything is crap.

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The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.

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I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.

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The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars.

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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: February 26th, 1918

Died: May 8th, 1985

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