American - Writer | May 13, 1937 - June 14, 1995
When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all.
Roger Zelazny
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I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences.
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I enjoy slaughtering beasts, and I think of my relatives constantly.
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While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.
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I read poetry every day. I look at it as an exercise, a kind of T'ai Chi for writers. It teaches economy of form.
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I always wanted to write, ever since I was a kid. I started writing at the age of 11. All I wanted to do was finish my education and have my nights free for writing.
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Ultimately, you've got to have something to say, so a writer should continue learning things throughout life. But I don't think education makes one a writer.
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It's hard not to be a part of your time.
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I find fantasy easier to write. If I'm going to write science fiction, I spend a lot more time thinking up justifications. I can write fantasy without thinking as much. I like to balance things out: a certain amount of fantasy and a certain amount of science fiction.
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In a sense, fantasy is a freer play of the imagination. You can achieve exactly the situation you want with less groundwork, less of a need to fill in all of the background. For science fiction, I would use a lot of sources to set up, for instance, what a being from another planet would be like.
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I care more, and I think readers do also, for characters in a state of transformation.
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I am fascinated, I suppose, by a flawed man with a streak of greatness.
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