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"It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it."
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"What I'd show you is much more bizarre than anything we have looked at so far, and I warn you in advance that the first impulse will be to laugh. That's all right. Laugh if you must. Just don't take your eye off what you see, for even in your imagination, here is a creature who can do you damage."
"Novelists are basically inviting their readers to play a game of pretend. That's what fiction is: a game of pretend."
"Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets."
"Imminent GM bankruptcy was always fiction, created by Wall Street and the media."
"A man walked across the moors from Razorback to Lancre town without seeing a single marshlight, head-less dog, strolling tree, ghostly coach or comet, and had to be taken in by a tavern and given a drink to unsteady his nerves."
"Flakes of snow swirled and danced across the porch. The Overlook faced it as it had for nearly three-quarters of a century, its darkened windows now bearded with snow, indifferent to the fact it was now cut off from the world. Inside its shell the three of them went about their early evening routine, like microbes trapped in the intestine of a monster."
"Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity."
"You can't burn down a made-up place."
"A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning."
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"What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit."
"I wish my readers took less of my time - about a third of my working time goes to them - but I love and need them all."
"I have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers today may be too young to remember his classics like The Lovers."
"I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements."
"As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not that the books are bad; editors won't even read them."
"Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn't done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia."
"In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it."
"I did not know at first that it would be a series; I discovered after the first novel that I had more to say about it, so I did another. And another, and then the readers demanded yet more."
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