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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"When this world is full of fashion, be unique by reflecting your own style."

"Every idea travels to somewhere but some ideas travel to everywhere, the great ideas!"

"How magical can a person be when she is blessed with infinite kindness?"

"A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life."

"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."
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"Fortunately, many people also enjoy a stand-alone as a sample of something new, like trying the special at a favourite restaurant one night instead of going for the usual."

"I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research."

"Now, Venus is an extremely hostile environment, and as such presents a lot of challenges for a science fiction author who wants to create life there. However, as I began to research it more thoroughly, I found myself intrigued by the possibilities the world offers."

"Now, of course, the great thing about the solar system as a frontier is that there are no Indians, so you can have all the glory of the myth of the American westward expansion without any of the guilt."

"So, one of the things I was doing with the aliens in The Quiet Invasion was creating that advanced society which had ideas about morality and proper use of natural resources that were radically different from ours, as the Europeans were from the American Indians."

"I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror."

"When I was in college, I spent a summer working in London. I'd enjoyed tea before that, but then I got actual, really good tea there and never looked back."

"I describe my plots as follows; A character is walking down the street when all of a sudden a piano falls on them. They spend the rest of the story digging out from under that piano. How they dig, how long and how well, this all depends entirely on the character."

"If I get blocked, it is generally because I don't know enough about some aspect of the story or the characters. The answer for this is generally more research, or making more background notes, so the place and person can be more fully realized inside my own mind."
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