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Larry Niven
American
Writer
Born:
Apr 30
,
1938
Every
Life
Me
People
Space
Will
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Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
Larry Niven
Somebody
Starts
Everything
Daydream
I don't have a strong interest in history.
Larry Niven
History
Strong
Interest
We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes.
Larry Niven
Looking
Mistakes
Penalized
Get
Far
We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built.
Larry Niven
Political
Space
Assumed
Station
Could
Built
Space Station
Should
In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.
Larry Niven
Will
General
Inspiration
Know
Up
Pop
I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.
Larry Niven
Buy
Somebody
Looking
Kicking
Unpublished
Around
Got
Five
Six
Stories
Them
My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
Larry Niven
Me
Problem
Writers
Takes
New
Names
Years
Five
Six
Right
Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he's been doing it; he probably doesn't need the publicity anymore!
Larry Niven
Long
Relatively
Bruce
Writer
He
New
Sterling
Know
Terrific
How
Doing
Been
Anymore
Publicity
Need
SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.
Larry Niven
Time
Field
Way
Embedded
One Time
Direction
Never
Genre
Genres
Because
Off
Matrix
Any
Going
Which
Cut
Hardly
I do not believe they've run out of surprises.
Larry Niven
Believe
Out
Run
Surprises
I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.
Larry Niven
Life
Myself
People
My Life
Spent
Lot
Than
Brighter
Among
But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
Larry Niven
Life
Art
Me
Treat
My Life
Like
Steven
Art Form
Taught
Form
Watching
And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up.
Larry Niven
Writing
Every
Has-Been
Mars
Pretty
Never
Clear
Catch
Got
Been
Friend
Up
Stories
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