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"I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom."
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"No one in this world is your boss! Yet people walk around with a perplexed look, thinking 'someone will take away my things!' Hey, you are the owner of the whole universe. Who can take away what is yours?"

"Well sir, if things are real, they're there all the time"Are they?"

"When you write by hand, you don't have the excessive freedom of a computer. When I write down something, I have to be serious about it. I have to ask myself, "Is this necessary at this point in the book?"

"Many of us fight for and boast our freedom of what is ultimately the ability to prove ourselves to other people. It is unfortunate that only a few of us are so free in our joy, we no longer feel the need to prove ourselves to anyone."

"The true measure of a nation's freedom is its ability to protect the liberties of its citizens."
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"I have my good days and my bad days, but I don't have as much energy as I used to back when I was young and foolish and didn't count the cost - and it takes a lot - to write."

"I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with which they might be dealing on a close scale."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"Writing has been so much a part of my life that I'm really quite annoyed that I can't do as much as I used to."
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