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"What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit."
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"Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn't done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia."
Entertainment
"All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense."
Sense
"SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible."
Literature
"I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements."
Formula
"It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it."
Fiction
"When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there."
Humorous
"Normally I work out a general summary of what I mean to do, then start writing, and the details can be different from my anticipation. So there is considerable flow, but always within channels."
Work
"I do one Xanth novel a year, because at the moment that is all that publishers will accept; they don't want any other type of fiction from me, so Xanth pays my way."
Fiction
"In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it."
Education
"But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do."
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"What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit."
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