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"For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn't outline much. I had a vague idea of the story."
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"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."
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"The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer."
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"Skill gives you legs to jog, talent gives you legs to run, brilliance gives you legs to sprint, but genius gives you wings to fly."
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"For you to make your creative work creative, you must seek creativity from the creator."
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"Imagination is a glorious wonder."
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"Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields are just as likely to have an understanding of each other's work as someone working in the same genre."
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"Every time a man puts a new idea across he finds ten men who thought of it before he did - but they only thought of it."
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"I want to paint the rest of my days with the best colors."
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"It does not need to be perfect - or technically correct - to be magic."
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"What may be myth in one world may always be fact in some other."
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"A couple of weeks after that, Zebra Books phoned with an offer, and I accepted."
Books
"When I decided to take writing seriously, I did a lot of reading and analyzing of the books I liked, and came up with what I thought were pretty sound plotting and structure basics."
Reading
"When I was a teenager, I got into SF, quite heavily, and that too has had a major impact on my writing."
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"In the first year, 1988, I wrote and sold 3 novels."
Writing
"So, I outlined a horror novel and started writing."
Horror
"Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I'd just finished was horror, too."
Horror
"Even the contemporary horror authors who have seriously influenced me are a disparate bunch."
Horror
"So, in effect, my first sale was actually two books."
Books
"I've devoted a lot of my time and effort during the past few years to developing my advertising copywriting business to the point of where I can support my family and don't have to depend on writing fiction for my income."
Business
"The way I outline has changed quite a bit from when I first started writing."
Writing
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