There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.
About L. Sprague de Camp
Lyon Sprague de Campwas an American author of science fiction, fantasy and non-fiction literature. In a career spanning 60 years, he wrote over 100 books, both novels and works of non-fiction, including biographies of other fantasy authors.
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The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering – that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man’s good.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.
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It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.
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