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"Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones."
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"Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking."
"After all,'I've been thinking' meant she had previously identified the parameters and analyzed all the branching considerations."
"Don't think you are going to go on forever because you are not and begin to plan something that will compensate as you reduce your capacities to leap or turn on this or that or the other, begin thinking of something else."
"I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system."
"When I think of all the years in my 30s when I starved myself... but when I got the role of Lois, I stopped thinking about my looks and was just myself."
"I'm never a person who likes anything I've done. It's just the way it is. Twenty years later, I can look at something I did, and I'm still thinking, 'You know, that could have been better if you had done it this way or that way."
"Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think."
"It makes us feel better that everyone out there is thinking of Maurice."
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"Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant than Florida, but I can tell you things about Florida and alligators, let you make the connection all on your own."
"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."
"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."
"Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination."
"What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly."
"Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost."
"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."
"Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list."
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