You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.
From Ray Bradbury
I find it amusing that I'm on the Internet now, because I've criticized it, but mainly I've criticized it on the basis of, 'What are you going to do with it?'
Everybody has forgotten that Russia helped start the Second World War.
My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.
I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.
I'm never going to go to Mars, but I've helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.
Most of my short stories are fantasy.
You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.
I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring.
The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.
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