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"Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones."
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"He behaved like an ostrich and put his head in the sand, thereby exposing his thinking parts."

"If you're struggling to "think outside the box remember the box is self-imposed. Who says it has to be a box? Why not a bowl of petunias?"

"It's awful to have to, but I've started thinking about that, you know. 86. I'm thinking, well, maybe I might make it to 90. At least I'd like to have my brains."

"The hardest chore to do, and to do right, is to think. Why do you think the common man would choose labor, partially, as a distraction from his own thoughts? It is because that level of stress, he most absolutely abhors."

"Life demands more thinking than remembering."

"We were worried about that actually. The cast was thinking that they'd lose their minds. But we didn't."

"Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking."
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"In bad weather, I spent hours drawing action figures on paper, coloring them, backing them on cardboard, then cutting them out and creating whole stories around their lives."


"Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost."


"A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore."


"We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making."


"Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the lives of my characters, as well, albeit on a much different level."


"My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name a few."
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