I sent The World Well Lost to one editor who rejected it on sight, and then wrote a letter to every other editor in the field warning them against the story, and urging them to reject it on sight without…

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

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

The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which...

The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which...

You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert...

You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert...

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

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

I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World...

I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World...

Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which...

Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which...

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

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

There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not...

There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not...

I feel angry that I can't be hypnotized. I'm not putting it down, and I'm...

I feel angry that I can't be hypnotized. I'm not putting it down, and I'm...

There was so much that you could do, instead of looking for things that you...

There was so much that you could do, instead of looking for things that you...

For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had...

For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had...

I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's...

I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's...

You must write to the people's expertise.

You must write to the people's expertise.

Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage...

Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage...

I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because...

I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because...

I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it.

I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it.

Writing is a communication.

Writing is a communication.

Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two...

Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two...

You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know...

You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know...

Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.

Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.