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When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all.

I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences.

I enjoy slaughtering beasts, and I think of my relatives constantly.

While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.

I read poetry every day. I look at it as an exercise, a kind of T'ai Chi for writers. It teaches economy of form.

I always wanted to write, ever since I was a kid. I started writing at the age of 11. All I wanted to do was finish my education and have my nights free for writing.

Ultimately, you've got to have something to say, so a writer should continue learning things throughout life. But I don't think education makes one a writer.

It's hard not to be a part of your time.

I find fantasy easier to write. If I'm going to write science fiction, I spend a lot more time thinking up justifications. I can write fantasy without thinking as much. I like to balance things out: a certain amount of...

In a sense, fantasy is a freer play of the imagination. You can achieve exactly the situation you want with less groundwork, less of a need to fill in all of the background. For science fiction, I would use a...

I care more, and I think readers do also, for characters in a state of transformation.

I am fascinated, I suppose, by a flawed man with a streak of greatness.

Columbia University in 1959 had a kind of reputation that interested me.

In the Soviet Union, you always have the feeling someone is watching you.

I enjoy travel very much. I've taken the kids to Europe when there were just the two boys.

The places where I have the nameless character in 'My Name Is Legion' meet his boss are real places I've been to. That works well for tax purposes, writing into my stories the places I've actually visited.

The first time I met Harlan Ellison, we were both unpublished young punks in Cleveland, Ohio.

I got the idea for my novel 'Lord of Light' when I cut myself shaving just before I was to go on a panel at a convention. I had to go out there with this big gash in my face....

I read Herman Hesse's 'Siddhartha' while I was writing 'Lord of Light' along with many other things. It seemed a good time to read it so I could see what he had to say about Buddha. In my first chapter,...

I was writing 'He Who Shapes' when I was working for the Social Security Administration in Baltimore.

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