You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.
When you're older you want to learn from other people.
I've only written one science-fiction book: 'Fahrenheit 451.' That book is a book based on real facts and my hatred of people who destroy books.
Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.
The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.
I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.
Everybody has forgotten that Russia helped start the Second World War.
The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness.
