• This statement is similar or identical to several statements Hubbard is reported to have made to various individuals or groups in the 1940s. Variants include:
• The incident is stamped indelibly in my mind because of one statement that Ron Hubbard made. What led him to say what he did I can't recall — but in so many words Hubbard said: "I'd like to start a religion. That's where the money is!"
• L. Ron Hubbard to Lloyd A. Eshbach, in 1949; as quoted by Eshbach in his autobiography Over My Shoulder: Reflections On A Science Fiction Era (1983) .
• Y'know, we're all wasting our time writing this hack science fiction! You wanta make real money, you gotta start a religion!
• As reported to Mike Jittlov by Theodore Sturgeon as a statement Hubbard made while at the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society clubhouse in the 1940s.
• Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wanted to make a million dollars, the best way to do it would be start his own religion.
• As quoted in the Los Angeles Times (August 27, 1978)
• Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion.
• As quoted in the article "Scientology: Anatomy of a Frightening Cult" by Eugene H. Methvin. Reader's Digest (May 1980).
• I always knew he was exceedingly anxious to hit big money — he used to say he thought the best way to do it would be to start a cult.
• Sam Merwin, Editor of Thrilling Science Fiction magazine Winter of 1946-47; quoted in Bare-Faced Messiah, The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard (1987) by Russell Miller
• Whenever he was talking about being hard up he often used to say that he thought the easiest way to make money would be to start a religion.
• Neison Himmel, briefly a roommate of Hubbard in Pasadena during the fall of 1945, in a 1986 interview, quoted in Bare-Faced Messiah, The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard (1987) by Russell Miller.
You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion." in the context of "Response to a question from the audience during a meeting of the Eastern Science Fiction Association on (November 7, 1948), as quoted in a 1994 affidavit by Sam Moskowitz.
• This statement is similar or identical to several statements Hubbard is reported to have made to various individuals or groups in the 1940s. Variants include:
• The incident is stamped indelibly in my mind because of one statement that Ron Hubbard made. What led him to say what he did I can't recall — but in so many words Hubbard said: "I'd like to start a religion. That's where the money is!"
• L. Ron Hubbard to Lloyd A. Eshbach, in 1949; as quoted by Eshbach in his autobiography Over My Shoulder: Reflections On A Science Fiction Era (1983) .
• Y'know, we're all wasting our time writing this hack science fiction! You wanta make real money, you gotta start a religion!
• As reported to Mike Jittlov by Theodore Sturgeon as a statement Hubbard made while at the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society clubhouse in the 1940s.
• Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wanted to make a million dollars, the best way to do it would be start his own religion.
• As quoted in the Los Angeles Times (August 27, 1978)
• Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion.
• As quoted in the article "Scientology: Anatomy of a Frightening Cult" by Eugene H. Methvin. Reader's Digest (May 1980).
• I always knew he was exceedingly anxious to hit big money — he used to say he thought the best way to do it would be to start a cult.
• Sam Merwin, Editor of Thrilling Science Fiction magazine Winter of 1946-47; quoted in Bare-Faced Messiah, The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard (1987) by Russell Miller
• Whenever he was talking about being hard up he often used to say that he thought the easiest way to make money would be to start a religion.
• Neison Himmel, briefly a roommate of Hubbard in Pasadena during the fall of 1945, in a 1986 interview, quoted in Bare-Faced Messiah, The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard (1987) by Russell Miller." to mean that wisdom is timeless.
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