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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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"The first stage of any development is infancy."
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"The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him."
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"To focus solely on endings is to trade conclusions for the very beginnings that created them. And if this cycle should persist, we will likewise miss the beginning that will follow this ending."
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"A rose started off a bud, a bird started off an egg, and a forest started off a seed."
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"Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do."
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"In my beginning is my end."
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"To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness."
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"The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium."
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"You always think you're better than you are in the beginning."
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"Well, I'm a huge fan of Ryan Adams, who's from North Carolina. And he's beginning to break really quite big."
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"The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it."
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"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."
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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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"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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"Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims."
People

"At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book."
Age

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

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

"I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens."
Books

"I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway."
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