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"I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories."
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"The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down."
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"I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories."
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"I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story."
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"The professionals are going to be joined by the average Joe. Everybody's a publisher."
Writing

"Which, of course, isn't the point of writing - but it would be nice if, along with the creative satisfaction of writing and seeing my work in print, I could do more than merely scrape a living. Okay, moaning over."
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"I think my fascination is less with genre figures than with writers in general."
Writing

"To me, it's all about opening all the doors and getting people to be not only prolific, but creative and having control of their music."
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"You don't have to fight for your life anymore. You're starting a new one."
Life

"'Made it as a writer'? I'm still wondering if I've made it as a writer. I've made it as a published writer of the type of SF that I want to write and read, but I'm still waiting for that big breakthrough."
Writing

"Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it's like to write. I'm interested in the creative process. I'm fascinated by the disparity between who we are on the outside, and what we have bubbling away inside us."
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"Year Two is a critical year for any television show."
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"There was a little afternoon show that was called Afternoon. Back in those days in television, most local stations had a midday show for housewives that had a series of things. It was like a variety show for midday."
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"I was at a luncheon; and some cameras were trained on us. I dont' know whether they were for television or not. You know how little I know about cameras."
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"Basicly what I had to do was do a 7 minute board and pitch it to a room of big wigs from the network and based on that they determined if I would get a short or not."
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"Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around."
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"Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have."
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"Television speeded everything up."
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"I'm in my 80s and not a keen television fan."
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"Television, as you know, can kind of jettison you into a whole new world."
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"I want to bring more gymnastics on television."
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