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"The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it."
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"Love that brings you sorrow is better than hate that brings you joy."
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"I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom."

"Writing has been so much a part of my life that I'm really quite annoyed that I can't do as much as I used to."

"I wouldn't encourage new writers to start off publishing through electronic media... it still isn't wide enough for the readership they would need to get a good start."

"But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end."

"What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food."

"I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel."

"I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need."

"Because we build the worlds we wouldn't mind living in. They contain scary things, problems, but also a sense of rightness that makes them alive and makes us want to live there."
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