Arthur C. Clarke Quotes about Writing

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I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

Arthur C. Clarke

Writing, Thinking, Questions And Answers

"An Enchanted Life: An Adept's Guide to Masterful Magick". Book by Patricia Telesco, November 1, 2001.

There is a special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attained at last, and that life must now be shaped toward new ends.

Arthur C. Clarke

Hope, Writing, Ambition

I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write about this and made people think about it. I'm rather proud of the fact that I know several astronauts who became astronauts through reading my books.

Arthur C. Clarke

Book, Reading, Writing

No trilogy should have more than four books.

Arthur C. Clarke

Book, Writing, Should Have

Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “2001: A Space Odyssey”, p.17, RosettaBooks

A precondition for being a science fiction writer other than an interest in the future is that, an interest - at least an understanding of science, not necessarily a science degree but you must have a feeling for the science and its possibilities and its impossibilities, otherwise you're writing fantasy. Now, fantasy is also fine, but there is a distinction, although no one's ever been able to say just where the dividing lines come.

Arthur C. Clarke

Writing, Understanding, Feelings

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To be a science fiction writer you must be interested in the future and you must feel that the future will be different and hopefully better than the present. Although I know that most - that many science fiction writings have been anti-utopias. And the reason for that is that it's much easier and more exciting to write about a really nasty future than a - placid, peaceful one.

Arthur C. Clarke

Writing, Peaceful, Different

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I don't think there are any secrets to writing in the - everybody has their own techniques. You must be widely read, that's one thing, because you have to resolve a tremendous amount of background information. Also, you should know what the competition is writing, just so you're not wasting your time doing the same thing. Unless you do it better, of course.

Arthur C. Clarke

Writing, Thinking, Competition

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