All experience is memory, and so everything you write about is from memory-unless you're writing about typing. - Joe Haldeman

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Part of me thinks that I've been called by the universe, to get all sort of spiritual about it. Like, I've had no actual say in the matter. The universe found me.

Joe Haldeman

All experience is memory, and so everything you write about is from memory-unless you're writing about typing.

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Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery.

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Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man.

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Rationalism doesn't require "belief," only observation. The real, measurable world doesn't care what you believe.

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The worst advice a young writer can get is "Write what you know. " Imagination is more important than experience.

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The 1143-year-long war hand begun on false pretenses and only because the two races were unable to communicate. Once they could talk, the first question was 'Why did you start this thing?' and the answer was 'Me?

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But at the end of the day, there are some questions that have no answers, and then one answer that has no question: love rules the game. Every time. All the time. That’s what counts.

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