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"The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years."
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"I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best."

"I think Juan stopped short - he got halfway to the destination and got off the train. He is certainly an excellent writer and a good person, but I'm not a nationalist."

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"When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power."

"An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table."

"I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored."

"Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science."

"I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get."

"It's hard to generalize, because they're all different. When I started, I decided to take as much advantage as I could of the freedom offered by the SF field."

"If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors."
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