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"There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature."
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"The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story."
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"Romance is mush, stifling those who strive."
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"In a world where there is so much sadness and so much to be afraid of, good things do happen to people. Romance is still something we can find even if we're not consciously looking for it."
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"Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one."
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"There was no romance about the mosquitos, however."
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"I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth."
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"Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning."
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"Consider what a romantic expedition you are on; take notes."
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"For me, romance isn't an over-the-top act. It's someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I'm making the wrong decision, he'll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts."
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"I think romance is anything honest. As long as it's honest, it's so disarming."
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"I think now I'm up to something like 85 different titles that I've published."
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"Each book will have a lot of cliffhangers, because I like that."
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"I did several interesting jobs, working in restaurants, I worked at a lab rat farm, feeding and watering all these rats. Then I got a full-time job as a technical writer for a large scientific research laboratory."
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"Wouldn't you like to have an augmented memory chip that you could plug into your head so you don't have to look everything up and remember everything?"
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"If you look at the British royal family and take away the scandals and the goofy stuff that's going on, people love to have this king to look up to - the royals are like celebrities."
Family
"My total year's income from working as hard as I possibly could from writing went from like $30 one year to about $70 the next year. And it made me realize that maybe you couldn't really pay the rent that way."
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"Of course you don't make any noise in space, because there's no air."
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"If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be."
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"I always had this non-stop drive. I had to keep sending stories out and every once in awhile I'd get something accepted or get the little trickle of positive feedback."
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"I mean, I wasn't stupid. I knew we'd make money and sell a lot of Dune books."
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