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We are cups,
constantly being filled. The trick is nowing how to tip ourselves
over and let the beautiful stuff out. First you must choose your
style and genre. Anything you dream is fiction, anything you
accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing
but science fiction. Science fiction is the most important literature
in the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history
of our civilization birthing itself. Science fiction is central
to everything we've ever done, and people who make fun of science
fiction writers don't know what they're talking about. I am a
writer and you will be a writer. My job is to help you fall in
love. I cannot tell you a sure way to write successfully. My
stories run up and bite me in the leg, I respond by writing everything
down that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets
go and runs off. So while our art cannot, as we wish it could,
save us from war, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death,
it can revitalize us amidst it all. |