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"We are the mountains we must cross."
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"It's hard as hell to hold onto your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes, and that's what I was thinking about as we hunted for bad guys through the ruins of a city that didn't exist."
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Personal Development
"Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge."
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"The more difficult a problem is, the more discoveries you make in the process of resolving it."
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"The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."
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"If it doesn't challenge you, it won't change you!"
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"It's a challenge between me and the hurdle, and the hurdle has always won."
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"If the challenge to fight was there, I always took it."
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"Impossible situations TEST you and PROVE Him."
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"The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts. And there was a considerable challenge to that here and understandably so."
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"It took me about 12 years to reach my million-word mark. The challenge now is to continue to challenge myself."
Challenge
"No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge."
Time
"Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy."
Universe
"When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery."
Computer
"The money can be decent, but I really don't recommend the work-for-hire route as an entry into publishing. Too many things can go wrong."
Money
"Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment."
Balance
"I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre."
Creativity
"I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans."
Books
"Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet."
Diversity
"I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath."
Time
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