You'd have to put yourself back in the 1960s to understand how separate from the mainstream of American life soldiers felt themselves to be, because we knew that students and others were demonstrating pretty violently against what we were doing.
From Joe Haldeman
I like the physical action of writing down by hand, and I don't just use it for writing my fiction.
I carry a notebook and write down things to do, and I write out thoughts and stuff like that.
If I had had a thing like an iPad when I was a kid, then I never would have gotten into the habit of writing things down by hand.
No good deed goes unpunished. I missed the moon landing by being nice to a stranger.
It's fair to say that white America wouldn't have elected an African-American president without the integrating effect of black music - from Louis Armstrong to hip-hop - and black drama and fiction, commercial as much as 'serious.'
When I first started working at MIT, back in the '80s, our writing department had a joint cocktail party with the Harvard writing department. It was kind of oil-and-water.
Political art - not always a contradiction in terms - can destroy institutions, or eat away at them.
Most science fiction is about white men who are 25 to 30, who are very smart, who face a physical problem and solve it.
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