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"Anyone? On Snow's visit before the Victory Tour, he challenged me to erase any doubts of my love for Peeta. "Convince me," Snow said. It seems, under that hot pink sky with Peeta's life in limbo, I finally did. And In doing so, I gave him the weapon he needed to break me."

"Nothing is easy, and, with respect to legal work, that was absolutely true."

"We are the mountains we must cross."

"You cannot reach space without overcoming the attraction of gravity."

"Sometimes, God's silence is a challenge for us to act."
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"When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books."

"Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people."

"My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus."

"I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?"

"So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it."

"But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world."

"When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans."

"You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses."

"When I was quite young, she was working in a hardware store, so I grew up knowing about hardware."
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