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"Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion."
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"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."
"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."
"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."
"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
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"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."
"I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get."
"It's hard to generalize, because they're all different. When I started, I decided to take as much advantage as I could of the freedom offered by the SF field."
"If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors."
"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."
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