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"Then the dwarves forgot their joy and their confident boasts of a moment before and cowered down in fright. Smaug was still to be reckoned with. It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him."
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"I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind."
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"Fear is a disease of mind we inherit from society."
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"Fear deprives us the fullness of existence."
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"Some mysteries bite and barkand come to get you in the dark."
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"A monster's worst fear is of being found."
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"Fear is a part of life. It's a warning mechanism. That's all. It tells you when there's danger around. Its job is to help you survive. Not cripple you into being unable to do it."
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"Until you break through the walls of fear, you will not be able to reach the door of opportunity."
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"How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness. But without such ignorance, such carelessness, how could we live? If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next-if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions-you'd be doomed. You'd be as ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to."
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"So many horrid Ghosts."
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"There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons."
Science
"At this stage, my chief professional goal is simply to keep on writing and making a living at it."
Goal
"Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun."
Fear
"I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting published."
Thought
"I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30."
Age
"My gut feeling is that paper and ink are going to be with us for a long time yet, and in substantial quantities, though certainly books are now going to be available in other forms."
Time
"Actually ideas are everywhere. It's the paperwork, that is, sitting down and thinking them into a coherent story, trying to find just the right words, that can and usually does get to be labor."
Creativity
"More immediately, I'm currently working on another Dracula in which there will be connections with ancient Egypt. That's about as far as I want to go in commenting on current work."
Work
"Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity."
Books
"And what we know, or think we know, about the universe of space and time is changing very quickly."
Time
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