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"I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio."
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"Never despise the talents you have. It is by them that you will do something that has not yet come into existence until you were born."
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"Talent silences your competition, genius deafens them."
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"There is only one school of literature - that of talent."
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"There is a difference between talented people and gifted people.Talented people are good AT something, Gifted people ARE that something."
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"He has tongue of a writer."
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"You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others."
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"Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions."
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"You will only succeed in the field where your gift is."
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"What you are good at, you never do it free!"
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"Use the capacity and talent given to you by God to go and subdue the world given to you by Him."
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"Writing has been so much a part of my life that I'm really quite annoyed that I can't do as much as I used to."
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"I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need."
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"Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims."
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"I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio."
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"I'm 78, I'm on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff."
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"I wouldn't encourage new writers to start off publishing through electronic media... it still isn't wide enough for the readership they would need to get a good start."
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"I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway."
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"I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime."
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"I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with which they might be dealing on a close scale."
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"The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it."
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