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"The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing."
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"I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write."
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"Ask yourself: was there anything I could have done to prevent the situation? If the answer is yes, do something now and become a better person for it."
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"There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now."
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"I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely."
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"Most journalists now believe that a person's privacy zone gets smaller and smaller as the person becomes more and more powerful."
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"We've seen so many films now, that you have to be on par with the best films that have preceded you. You just can't make any movie and it will be good."
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"My most intimate secrets? Well, if I told you those they wouldn't be secrets now, would they? Seriously though I don't have too many secrets. I'm a very open and honest person, sometimes too honest for my own good."
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"I directed a movie and now, I'm going to do the editing."
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"If I were to write Web now, it would be a much, much darker book."
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"If I were to write Web now, it would be a much, much darker book."
Now

"The cynical part of the answer is that I expect to see a good deal more space opera, set far enough in the future as to be disconnected from contemporary issues."
Future

"Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality."
Reality

"The ideal, it seems to me, is to show things happening and allow the reader to decide what they mean."
Reading

"Creating the fictional background for a game world isn't significantly different from creating a background for fiction."
Fiction

"I don't think anyone wants a reader to be completely lost - certainly not to the point of giving up - but there's something to be said for a book that isn't instantly disposable, that rewards a second reading."
Reading

"I'm very happy that the New York Times has spoken well of my stuff; who wouldn't be? But it's not a choice I made."
Choice

"The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating."
Writing

"Well, it's an adventure story, and a Bildungsroman, of course, but there was also the intention to describe a culture that had been seen in rather narrow terms."
Adventure

"Naturally, the reader has access only to the events I show and the way I show them, but as has been said, there's generally a good deal of ambiguity in that presentation."
Writing
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