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"In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over."
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"Faithfulness to one's word is one of the principles of discipline."
"Allow your daily small acts of kindness to degenerate into a lifetime of human excellence."
"He was one of those rare people, rare in our town as elsewhere, who have the courage of their good feelings. What little he told of his personal life vouched for acts of kindness and a capacity for affection that no one in our times dares own to."
"An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life - becoming a better person."
"It is only the man that delays his gratification that is a man indeed."
"(Kindness) is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen."
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"When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books."
"Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people."
"My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus."
"I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?"
"So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it."
"But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world."
"When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans."
"You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses."
"When I was quite young, she was working in a hardware store, so I grew up knowing about hardware."
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