Writing is a lonely way of life. You shut yourself up in your study and work and work.
Philip K. DickBasically, Sherri's idea had to do with bringing Fat's mind down from the cosmic and the abstract to the particular. She had hatched out the practical notion that nothing is more real than a large World War Two Soviet tank.
Philip K. DickWhen I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things. ... I must be scientific.
Philip K. DickAmazed, Fat said, "She's decomposing and yet she's still giving birth?" "Only to monsters," Dr. Stone said.
Philip K. DickThe real origin of science fiction lay in the seventeeth-century novels of exploration in fabulous lands. Therefore Jules Verne's story of travel to the moon is not science fiction because they go by rocket but because of where they go. It would be as much science fiction if they went by rubber band.
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