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"I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime."
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"What is the likelihood, of winning the lottery, then lose it all the next day when you step out your front door and get struck by lightning? Probably, very slim, but then anything is possible."
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"We are given to the cult of personality; when things go badly we look to some messiah to save us. If by chance we think we have found one, it will not be long before we destroy him."
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"He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it."
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"The records fell easily at first. Dozens of seconds peeled away with every running of a course, and I could hardly wait for the next chance to improve."
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"When it's your chance to step up to the plate, just hit it out of the park, and everybody will forget about everything that came before."
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"The guy comes up to the plate, there's always a chance where he can get a grand slam and everybody forgets about all the times he missed."
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"If I put the script down more than once, there's a good chance that I probably don't want to play the part."
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"You can't be pregnant in leotards, and this is the last chance for us to get our bodies into the shape of concert dancers and capture it with the magic of film."
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"This party is full of stars. They will all have their chance to shine."
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"Still, we view that old material very much like we view the new material so if this gives us a chance to go out and promote it then, yes we will go out and do that."
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"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."
Want
"I think the Internet, particularly the availability of information, is great. I do a lot of correspondence on-line and have a chat line to talk to my fans as well."
Internet
"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."
Energy
"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."
Writing
"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."
Religion
"I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime."
Chance
"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."
Media
"What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food."
Food
"That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house."
Beginning
"I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway."
Writing
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