"That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house."

Beginning, Career

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"That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house."

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"There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

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"Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning."

Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Sociologist

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"You cannot skip the beginning and hope to reach the end. You will fall as soon as you get there."

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"The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small."

Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

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"The first stage of any development is infancy."

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"I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

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"Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues."

Franz Kafka, Austrian Novelist

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"Isn't that the way everything begins? A night, a love, a once and for all."

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"A rose started off a bud, a bird started off an egg, and a forest started off a seed."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"The past is but the past of a beginning."

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"That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house."

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"I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage."

Being, Emotion, Writing

"I don't often reread my own books, unless I am going into another in the series and need to refresh my mood when originating the concept."

Books,

"But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end."

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"What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food."

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"I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime."

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"Because we build the worlds we wouldn't mind living in. They contain scary things, problems, but also a sense of rightness that makes them alive and makes us want to live there."

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"I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need."

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"I wouldn't encourage new writers to start off publishing through electronic media... it still isn't wide enough for the readership they would need to get a good start."

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"But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible."

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