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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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"I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime."
Chance
"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."
Writing
"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."
Emotional
"That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house."
Beginning
"Because we build the worlds we wouldn't mind living in. They contain scary things, problems, but also a sense of rightness that makes them alive and makes us want to live there."
Living
"I have my good days and my bad days, but I don't have as much energy as I used to back when I was young and foolish and didn't count the cost - and it takes a lot - to write."
Energy
"I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel."
Time
"I don't often reread my own books, unless I am going into another in the series and need to refresh my mood when originating the concept."
Books
"I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens."
Books
"People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?"
Life
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