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"Neal had a couple of good ideas and they fit nicely, so that's the way I decided to go."
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"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."
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"The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer."
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"For you to make your creative work creative, you must seek creativity from the creator."
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"Imagination is a glorious wonder."
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"Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields are just as likely to have an understanding of each other's work as someone working in the same genre."
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"I want to paint the rest of my days with the best colors."
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"It does not need to be perfect - or technically correct - to be magic."
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"What may be myth in one world may always be fact in some other."
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"I earn the magic of words by writing.I learn the myth of worlds by imagining."
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"The imaginative is produced by the human mind as it tries to respond to something greater than itself, struggling to find images adequate to the reality."
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"One of the key issues will be personal honour vs. the good of the many, and unforeseen consequences."
Consequence
"In the end, my reasons for moving down the timeline and introducing a new cast have more to do with keeping myself entertained, on the assumption that if I get bored, my readers are going to be even more bored."
Art
"Jigsaw Lady is the working title of a science fiction novel I've had in my head for darn near 15 years. I think I'll start work on it next year (in all my spare time) but I'd like to get it finished some day."
Science
"Often I'll try things that just won't happen the way I'd like them to, so hearing that they're not working saves me some wear and tear the next time around."
Time
"There's always going to be comparisons, and that's unavoidable. There are people out there who feel I hit my peak with Magician and have gone downhill since."
People
"Neal had a couple of good ideas and they fit nicely, so that's the way I decided to go."
Creativity
"If I leave my computer, I'm probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer questions and go web surfing, then guilt kicks in and I get back to work."
Work
"There were two things going on: 1) I had already established in my own mind where I wanted to go with the next series, and having James around as a Grey Eminence would have complicated matters. He had had an amazing life and it was time to bid him good-bye."
Life
"You can only have one first born child. You may love all your children deeply and with passion, but there is something unique about the first born."
Love
"One likes to think one grows as a writer as one ages, else all you get is an "old" young writer. Beyond that is the changing landscape of the universe and the stories I choose to tell."
Universe
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