The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
My friends are my estate.