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I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
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I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast.
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But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.
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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
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Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a very talented writer, but his imagination was wonderful.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.
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I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.
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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
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Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.
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This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late.
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These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything.
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The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway.
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