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"I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments."
Job
"I always turn in my books on time, so you can always count on a book coming out when it's supposed to."
Time
"Each book will have a lot of cliffhangers, because I like that."
Will
"I always had this non-stop drive. I had to keep sending stories out and every once in awhile I'd get something accepted or get the little trickle of positive feedback."
Positive
"If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be."
Time
"I mean, I wasn't stupid. I knew we'd make money and sell a lot of Dune books."
Money
"My total year's income from working as hard as I possibly could from writing went from like $30 one year to about $70 the next year. And it made me realize that maybe you couldn't really pay the rent that way."
Income
"There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature."
Romantic
"We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up."
Prequels
"I did several interesting jobs, working in restaurants, I worked at a lab rat farm, feeding and watering all these rats. Then I got a full-time job as a technical writer for a large scientific research laboratory."
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"Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will."
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Personal Development
"That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way."
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Personal Development
"Perhaps it is true that all that happens is in accordance with Your will, and thus it is good. But sometimes You leave blood on Your instruments."
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Personal Development
"Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig."
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Personal Development
"Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice."
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Personal Development
"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
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Personal Development
"Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected."
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Personal Development
"Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so."
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Personal Development
"Your will to success supersedes all other wills."
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Personal Development
"Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be."
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Personal Development
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