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"It's hard to hold the focus that strongly on a single character for that long."
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"If you know how it's to be treated unfairly, you will be gentle with others."
"Great occasions often stimulate a person to do something great, but that tells nothing of his or her real character. Great is the person who does good always, in sickness and in health, in riches and in poverty."
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"My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world."
"I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting."
"Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women."
"I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along."
"When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books."
"You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses."
"So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it."
"But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world."
"When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans."
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