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"It may be important to write a book that doesn't come up to what I would like to have rather than to write no book at all."
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"Writing. Is it a way to be remembered,or a need to become immortal?"
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"I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine."
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"Between the lines of every book the writer reveals their own secrets."
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"And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it."
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"I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it."
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"As a rule of thumb, four consecutive lines of dialogue is about as much as you want to have without a tag."
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"In the middle section of the book Mirabelle breaks into not one, but two houses near Belgravia Books. I had fun scoping these out - checking which windows looked least secure and figuring out how to scale the mews houses to the rear to get her inside. A man came out at one point, 'What are you doing?' he questioned me. 'The thing is, I'm writing a book,' I started with a smile. He waved me off, his hand as wide as a tennis racket. 'Everyone is writing a book, my dear,' he said. Between you and I, it's his house that MIrabelle ends up breaking into."
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"One idea to a sentence is still the best advice that anyone has ever given on writing."
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"It is the most fun I'm ever going to have. I love to write. I love it. I mean, there's nothing in the world I like better, and that includes sex, probably because I'm so very bad at it. It's the greatest peace when I'm in a scene, and it's just me and the character, that's it, that's where I want to live my life."
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"But in the wake of 'Bullet,' all the guys wanted to know was, 'How's it doing? How's it selling?' How to tell them I didn't give a flying fuck how it was doing in the marketplace, that what I cared about was how it was doing in the reader's heart?"
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"There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me."
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"I'm not sure a world run by women would be any better. They're human beings!"
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"The expression of divinity is in variety."
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"To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and have a little idea as well, maybe you have some kind of a cross-breed between the two."
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"It may be important to write a book that doesn't come up to what I would like to have rather than to write no book at all."
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"What do I have to say to the universe? A soul ought to have something to say to the universe if it's going to be immortal."
Soul
"The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers."
Science
"Science fiction still is an idea genre."
Science
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