He thought for a while and remembered about the physical fitness regime as well
Now, you bunch of miserable back-sliders, this is going to stop, d’yer hear? First thing tomorrow, up at dawn, three times round the quadrangle and back here for physical jerks! Balanced meals! Study! Healthy exercise
Oh, my gods,’ moaned the Dean, rolling over. ‘He’s doing press-ups.’
Wake up, you fellows! Who’s game for a brisk trot around the island? There’ll be a small prize for the winner
The thing, he told himself, is not to look up or down, but straight ahead, into the marble, parcelling the impossible height into manageable sections. Just like time. That’s how we survive infinity – we kill it by breaking it up into small bits
the survival rations and the microfilm library of one hundred great books.”
I am methodical; I keep a record. This
Silverberg does not operate on this principle. He works a steady schedule. He practices his craft five days a week, six hours a day. Writing is what he does, and not to do it means not to be functioning




