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The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it. ↗

— Omar Khayyam

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I always want to write something better than the last book. ↗

— Tracy Kidder

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I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard. ↗

— Tracy Kidder

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I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in. ↗

— Tracy Kidder

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The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia. ↗

— Tracy Kidder

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I really don't have a favorite course. I usually ask where there are the least players. ↗

— Darrell Royal

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Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile. ↗

— Rudy Rucker

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Well, my favorite sport as a kid was clearly baseball. ↗

— Leigh Steinberg

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Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail. ↗

— Rudy Rucker

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Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens. ↗

— Rudy Rucker

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