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"I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio."
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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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"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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"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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"With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy."
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"If you have the ability to see the things behind the scenes, then you have the greatest talent one can ever have because there is almost always something else behind the things!"
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"Put the right people in the right positions to ensure their personal strengths and talents are being utilized and appreciated."
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"It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ."
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"That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house."
Beginning

"I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage."
Being

"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'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio."
Talent

"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."
Writing

"What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food."
Food

"I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime."
Chance

"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 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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"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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