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"I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books."
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"God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal."
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"An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie."
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"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."
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"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."
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"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."
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"The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush."
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"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."
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"Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made."
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"God's dice always have a lucky roll."
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"I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best."
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"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
"That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me."
Faith
"My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history."
History
"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've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium."
Reading
"When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat."
Creativity
"It took me about 12 years to reach my million-word mark. The challenge now is to continue to challenge myself."
Challenge
"A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story."
Instinct
"If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer."
Creativity
"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
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