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All Quotes Collection
"Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant than Florida, but I can tell you things about Florida and alligators, let you make the connection all on your own."
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"What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly."
Want,
37
"I want you, as a reader, to experience what I experience, to let that other world, that imaginary world that I have created, tell you things about the real world."
42
"In bad weather, I spent hours drawing action figures on paper, coloring them, backing them on cardboard, then cutting them out and creating whole stories around their lives."
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"My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago."
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"Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the lives of my characters, as well, albeit on a much different level."
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"We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making."
43
"Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination."
35
"I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you."
36
"I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore."
36
"When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment."
36
"We forget that what matters begins with the imagination."
35
"Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon."
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"I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too."
43
"After all, you put a lot into creating a universe and everything that goes with it, and it seems a shame to use it only once."
45
"A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore."
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"Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones."
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"For a writer, its very attractive to stay in one world for a time."
49
"Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost."
45
"I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say to themselves that the fabric of the magic detailed was perfectly believable."
29
"I haven't made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books."
41
"I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out."
34
"I remember one winter, when I was about five or six, I spent three days with another boy, tracking a bobcat that had been sighted in another county fifty miles away, but which I was sure had come into our neighborhood."
34
"Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on."
42
"Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means."
31
"People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding."
34
"It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans."
28
"Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright."
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"The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man."
38
"No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead."
43
"The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us by what we have."
42
"The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top."
47
"Virginity is such a personal thing. You can't judge anyone on it. A lot of young women feel they want to save themselves for the man who they think they'll love forever."
47
"Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level."
45
"No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along."
38
"Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life."
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"Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash."
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"As a celebrity, you get a certain number of free passes. You're actually in a better position if you're a celebrity because people care."
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