"I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work."

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"I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work."

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"People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings, immortals, the dead... these are all people to me."

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"I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work."

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"Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?"

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"Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche."

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"I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love it, and I'm very greedy, and I really enjoy it!"

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"It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself."

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"At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer."

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"I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don't care if it's stereotyped."

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"I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault."

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"Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote."

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"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."

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"The world system is employment."

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"Police officers are poorly paid for a very stressful job that has them in very high powered radio frequency (RF) fields and in a daily environment that may result in them being assaulted, maimed or killed."

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"Do not be weary to make money."

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"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

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"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."

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"Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"Be robust enough to work more than a robot!"

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

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