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Lester Del Rey Told Me Repeatedly That The First And Most Important Part Of Writing Fiction Is Just To Think About The Story. Don't Write Anything Down. Don't Try To Pull Anything Together Right Away. Just Dream For A While And See What Happens. There Isn't Any Timetable Involved, No Measuring Stick For How Long It Ought To Take. For Each Book, It Is Different. But That Period Of Thinking, Of Reflection, Is Crucial To How Successful Your Story Will Turn Out To Be.

The Future Is An Ever-shifting Maze Of Possibilities Until It Becomes The Present. The Future I Have Shown You Tonight Is Not Yet Fixed. But It Is More Likely To Become So With The Passing Of Every Day Because Nothing Is Being Done To Turn It Aside. If You Would Change It, Do As I Have Told You.

Well, I Think That As A Country, We've Drifted Away From Appreciating The Importance Of Imagination.

If You Do Not Hear Music In Your Words, You Have Put Too Much Thought Into Your Writing And Not Enough Heart.

Fiction Writers Are Strange Beasts. They Are, Like All Writers, Observers First And Foremost. Everything That Happens To And Around Them Is Potential Material For A Story, And They Look At It That Way.