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I set about originally with a sketch—I draw—of Banichi, which actually ended up in [cover artist] Michael Whelan’s hands. Novels start all sorts of ways, and this one had been a fragment that nagged me… it was just so interesting to write that I kept...more "
Biology, they said. You can postpone it, but you can’t prevent it. She’d watched the Olympics on television that summer, months ago, now, and had been struck by how young the gymnasts were.
“She had everything to recommend her but a heart. And yet that is the last thing a young man looks at.”
― The Far Arena
― The Far Arena
“I’d much rather watch people do what they do than talk to them across a desk.”
― Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process
― Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process
“For nonfiction projects, ideas are everywhere. They just go by in a ceaseless stream.”
― Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process
― Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process
“That's the beauty about this business. You don't have to know anything; you just have to know where to find out.”
― The Green Hills of Earth / The Menace from Earth
― The Green Hills of Earth / The Menace from Earth
“It doesn’t matter that something you’ve done before worked out well. Your last piece is never going to write your next one for you.”
― Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process
― Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process
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