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"Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones."
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"An enlightened thinker does not waste his precious time thinking about what others think of what he thinks."

"If you want to be tall to see the world better, have some high thoughts!"

"It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so."

"Open-mindedness is a precondition for generating new ideas, but focusing on the problem is almost equally important."
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"I want you, as a reader, to experience what I experience, to let that other world, that imaginary world that I have created, tell you things about the real world."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"I remember one winter, when I was about five or six, I spent three days with another boy, tracking a bobcat that had been sighted in another county fifty miles away, but which I was sure had come into our neighborhood."

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