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"Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background, which is usually the hardest part."
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"Teamwork was more accepted 40 years ago."

"Google Proves Nice Counts. On a quest to discover what it takes to build the "perfect team," Google launched the Project Aristotle initiative to find the answers. Over a period of several years, they surveyed hundreds of teams, conducted interviews, analyzed studies, and observed how team members interacted with one another.Google's findings revealed that "psychological safety" is the key ingredient for creating a high-functioning team. It nurtures a healthy environment that encourages freedom of expression, engaging communication, empathy for one another, caring, support, respect and, drum roll please . . . BEING NICE!"

"When building your team look for people who are disciplined even before they came to the Lord."

"God and government can work together."

"Even the lamest page can be saved by collaboration."

"Hopefully, if not it's not working right. I'm like a navigator and I try to encourage our collaboration and find the best way that will produce fruit. I like fruit. I like cherries, I like bananas."

"I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days."

"And you can tell the writers who do it - Robert Stone, for example, who with each new novel is doing something new. I appreciate that in other writers."

"Musicals are plays, but the last collaborator is your audience, so you've got to wait 'til the last collaborator comes in before you can complete the collaboration."

"The network is opening up some amazing possibilities for us to reinvent content, reinvent collaboration."
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"Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can."

"When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power."

"An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table."

"I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored."

"Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science."
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