"If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors."

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"If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors."

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"Animals will always have sad eyes because they can see into the soul of man."

Anthony T. Hincks, British Writer

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"Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies quite unlike people who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate in their . . . relations."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

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"We are like other animals; we live and die as they do. If there is any afterlife, I believe we are in together."

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"Some cats are angry at being called cats. To achieve peace with them, never call them by their real name."

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"Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals."

George Orwell, British Author

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"The dog is a gentleman, I hope to go to his heaven not man's."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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"I hate cats."Death's face became a little stiffer, if that were possible. The blue glow in his eye sockets flickered red for an instant."I SEE," he said. The tone suggested that death was too good for cat haters."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"Cats gravitate to kitchens like rocks gravitate to gravity."

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"Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion."

Being

"For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone."

Reading

"I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me."

Time

"Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one."

Science

"I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get."

Time

"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."

Collaboration

"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."

Universe

"Some of my ideas were shot down by Lucasfilm because they stepped on territory that has been reserved for the movies. I didn't have a problem with that."

Movies

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

Science

"The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years."

Writer