Robert Heinlein Quotes

• The best writing advice I had was [in] ‘Heinlein’s Rules for Writers’ by (American science fiction author) Robert A. Heinlein. His first rule is that you must write, and I was already doing that, but his second rule is, ‘You must finish what you write,’ and that had a big impact on me.

  George R. R. Martin

  Writing, Impact, Advice

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• It's very difficult for a black man to get out of South-Central Los Angeles, and get out civilized....The only men I know who have escaped, all began reading Robert Heinlein at age ten.

  Larry Niven

  Reading, Men, Black

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• If Robert Heinlein is more to your taste than George Lucas: “If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for, but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against.” That’s certainly true of me. Over my lifetime, the Republican Party has done far more to repulse me than the Democratic Party has done to appeal to me. But the result in the voting booth would be about the same either way.

  Kevin Drum

  Party, Voting, Would Be

  "In Politics, Hate > Love" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. October 27, 2015.

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• One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein's four rules of writing, one of which was, 'You must finish what you write.' I never had any problem with the first one, 'You must write' - I was writing since I was a kid. But I never finished what writing.

  George R. R. Martin

  Reading, Kids, Writing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And I repeat: if there is anything that can divert the land of my birth from its current stampede into the Stone Age, it is the widespread dissemination of the thoughts and perceptions that Robert Heinlein has been selling as entertainment since 1939.

  Spider Robinson

  Land, Perception, Age

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• Robert A. Heinlein has been an idol to me for more than 20 years. He can do no wrong, no matter how much he loves wars and hates pacifists.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Hate, War, Years

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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