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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.

Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.

For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity.

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.