Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have…

Quote by Brian Aldiss

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Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.

Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.

Keep violence in the mind where it belongs.

Keep violence in the mind where it belongs.

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

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I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of...

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It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating...

I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a...

I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a...

Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.

Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.

Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in...

Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in...

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.