I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.

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There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so...

There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

There is no way of writing stories that I haven't done.

There is no way of writing stories that I haven't done.

Ninety percent of everything is crap.

Ninety percent of everything is crap.

As far as I'm concerned, I didn't dream - ever.

As far as I'm concerned, I didn't dream - ever.

Anybody can do anything he wants to if he wants to do it badly enough.

Anybody can do anything he wants to if he wants to do it badly enough.

My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by...

My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by...

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

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

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

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

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've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point...

I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point...

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...

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...

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...

The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.

The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.