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"Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can."
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"I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price."
Technology
"That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door."
Authority
"The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years."
Writer
"When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power."
Power
"Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science."
Science
"I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get."
Time
"An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table."
Experience
"I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me."
Time
"I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored."
Universe
"Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background, which is usually the hardest part."
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"To improve your memory lend people money."
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Personal Development
"When someone gives you advice, just ask them to give it in writing and they will either keep mum or will run from there."
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Personal Development
"Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it."
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Personal Development
"Trial and error is not bad, but not the best. If you don't know where the crowd is going, don't follow it. Get set."
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Personal Development
"Go the extra mile to do the undone, but work within your limits, and in doing so also, don't be a coward to question things within your limit that are not all that right, and don't be too arrogant or proud or be filled with excessive knowledge to do things which might though be within your limit, yet out of limit, for you must live and leave nothing, but distinctive and lasting footprints!"
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"Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option."
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"An advice is truly valuable when people not just give it their ears but also their obedience."
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"Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old."
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Personal Development
"You come to me for advice, but you can't cope with anything you don't recognize. Hmmm. So we'll have to tell you something you already know but make it sound like news, eh Well, business as usual , I suppose."
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Personal Development
"Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly."
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