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"Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones."
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"Your most precious asset is your right thinking!"

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

"I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say to themselves that the fabric of the magic detailed was perfectly believable."

"What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly."

"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."

"Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination."

"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."
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