I just finished reading it and found most of it interesting. The autobiography is honest, surprisingly immersive, and quite funny at times. My mood often improved while reading this book because the writing is frank, insightful, and lively. Many different topics are covered, including: personal peculiarities, early days of sci-fi magazines, prolific writing, avoiding writers block, censorship, religion, politics, well known sci-fi writers and editors, and much more. Here are some quotes from this autobiography:

"I just work on the principle that of all the virtues gratitude (next to honesty) is the greatest, and that has helped me on numerous occasions in my life."

"As it happens, the vicissitudes of time have greatly increased the literary standards of my particular medium and I am very well aware (as I frequently say) that if I were starting today as a teenager, with only the evident talent that I actually had as a teenager, I could not possibly break into the field. It is so important to be in the right place at the right time."

"It's much easier to find reasons to consider oneself superior than inferior. But one is just the mirror image of the other."

"I never found true peace till I turned my whole working life into self- employment. I was not made to be an employee."

"The truly important parts of life develop slowly with experience."

"Now, when I read constantly about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the door is closing and that American society has found one more way to destroy itself."

"After all, one meets so many phonies in the world, so many sleazeballs, so many people who lie and twist and whose word cannot be trusted, that one sometimes gets the sick feeling that life is a garbage pit in which people are rotting banana peels. Yet one honest man refreshes the air fouled by a thousand devious rascals."

"When I have felt depressed and unhappy, the only anodyne I had (since I have never smoked, drunk, or drugged) was to write. It was only writing that dulled my anxiety."

"Continued success at anything tends to breed arrogance, if you are not careful."

"Of course, the reader might argue that I was as stubborn in my viewpoint as they were in theirs. Yes, indeed, but I was right and they were wrong and that made the difference."

"How does one become a prolific writer? The very first requirement is that a person have passion for the process of writing. I mean he must have a passion for what goes on between the thinking of a book and its completion."

"Being a prolific writer has its disadvantages, of course. It complicates the writer's social and family life, for a prolific writer has to be self-absorbed. He must be. He has to be either writing or thinking about writing virtually all the time, and has no time for anything else."

"It's easy to believe that no one should depend on society for help when you yourself happen not to need such help."