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I Was Trying To Learn About Lyndon Johnson When He Was Young And Creating His First Political Machine In The Texas Hill Country. I Moved There For Three Years. You Had To Learn That World

I Used To Work Very Long Hours. Then I Started To Realize That The Stuff That I Was Writing In The Late Afternoons, I Was Generally Throwing Out. So I Quit Earlier Than I Used To.

You Can Lose A Reader In A Blink Of An Eye. If A Person Is An Engineer Or Chemist Or An Anthropologist Or Whatever, You Spoil The Whole Book For That Person If There's Obviously Ignorance Here. What's Wrong With So Much Science Fiction Is That The Science Is So Lousy That It Isn't Worth Paying Attention To.

I've Always Felt That No One Understands Why Some Books Of Non-fiction Endure And Some Don't, Because There's Not Much Understanding Among Many Non-fiction Writers That The Narrative Is Terribly Important.

I Write From Seven To About Noon. I Used To Try To Write Longer, But I Read And I Found That I Was Always Getting Myself Tired By Working In The Afternoon And Then I Was Just Throwing Out What I Wrote In The Afternoon, So Writing Then Was Counterproductive.