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Thomas Perry

"If I don't have a project going, I sit down and begin to write something - a character sketch, a monologue, a description of some sight, or even just a list of ideas."

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"If I don't have a project going, I sit down and begin to write something - a character sketch, a monologue, a description of some sight, or even just a list of ideas."

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Donna Grant

"The poor will look for many excuses why an idea can not be born, but the rich will also look for one excuse why an idea can be born."

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Donna Grant

"If unconventional ideas = sperm, then public opinion = abortion."

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Donna Grant

"There are tree main bulwarks of defence against new thoughts: to pay no heed, to give no credence, and finally to assert that it had already long existed."

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Donna Grant

"I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future."

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Donna Grant

"Good designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organizing and manipulating of words and pictures."

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Donna Grant

"Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not."

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Donna Grant

"In doing everything, from coming up with the ideas and putting them on paper till doing the final edits, you are always thinking the next three steps, you're always thinking what next, what next, what next?"

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Donna Grant

"A barrier is of ideas, not of things."

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Donna Grant

"One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee."

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Donna Grant

"I wanted more in depth ideas about the character and it never came."

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Thomas Perry
"Yes, in my books I do edit myself to keep from becoming the Village Explainer."

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Thomas Perry
"Being comfortable isn't the way to learn to expand your abilities."

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Thomas Perry
"I think we did a great job of putting together a program that would have made good e-books available had people been buying e-books in any real numbers."

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Thomas Perry
"Once you have invented a character with three dimensions and a voice, you begin to realize that some of the things you'd like him to do to further your plot are things that such a person wouldn't, or couldn't, do."

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Thomas Perry
"Contrary to what many writers imply about the process, nobody forces a writer to sell his work to the film industry."

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Thomas Perry
"There are days when I intentionally don't write. For instance, I never write when I'm traveling, because travel is a situation where I can learn more by looking and listening than by working."

Travel

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Thomas Perry
"I do hope to bring Jane Whitefield back before too long."

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Thomas Perry
"I do like to explore evil characters in my books."

Books

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Thomas Perry
"I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it."

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Thomas Perry
"All writers are mimics, and I'm not interested in picking up somebody else's style or voice."

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