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"I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio."
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"We're all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent."
"Talent is the presence of ability and absence of understanding about the source and operation of knowledge."
"There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail."
"That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools."
"Talent is the seed, success is the fruit."
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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."
"I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom."
"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."
"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."
"But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end."
"What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food."
"That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house."
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