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"I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime."
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"There's only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn't give you a chance there is nothing you can do."
"On a hairpin turn, above the dead forest, on no day in particular, a white Toyota crashed into a black Mercedes, for a moment blending into a blur of gray."
"I assure you I will not miss the chance to show you that you were right when you voted for me."
"If you go in and audition for roles rather than just be offered them, then you kind of get a chance to kind of discover that you can do something that you didn't think you could do."
"As long as I've got a chance to beat you I'm going to take it."
"No fact in human nature is more characteristic than its willingness to live on a chance. The existence of the chance makes the difference between a life of which the keynote is resignation and a life of which the keynote is hope."
"Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn."
"I've got big shoes to fill. This is my chance to do something. I have to seize the moment."
"Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about."
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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."
"What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food."
"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."
"That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house."
"That's what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there."
"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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