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"I outline fairly extensively because I'm usually dealing with real events. I don't need to give myself as much information as I used to, but I still like to have two pages of outline for every projected 100 pages of manuscript."
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"There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention."
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"Big shows are more like events and small shows are more like traditional gigs."
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"Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It is a logical sequence of events that grow from an initial incident that alters the status quo of the characters."
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"Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity."
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"I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?"
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"Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred."
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"News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute."
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"Rossi was the first to describe another system working with valves in parallel; it has the advantage that it can easily be extended to coincidences between more than two events, and is therefore predominantly used today."
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"I do have a library of events I can talk about and I always expect to find a different point of view on it so even if I talk about the same event in the same town it's fresh."
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"Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject."
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"Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing."
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"I ride horseback - arthritic knees permitting - or listen to opera. Sometimes I cook. I used to do needlework, but it's hard on my hands now, so I only do it occasionally, but I like it. And, of course, I read."
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"I think it is probably more important to attend specialized conventions for a journeyman writer than any other, but it's useful at all stages of a career, if for nothing else, to find out how the industry is working at any given time."
Time
"Common folk didn't have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries."
History
"Isn't that an odd philosophy for a vampire?"
Philosophy
"I outline fairly extensively because I'm usually dealing with real events. I don't need to give myself as much information as I used to, but I still like to have two pages of outline for every projected 100 pages of manuscript."
Events
"Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness."
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