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"Actually, the 14 novels were written over a period of just over 6 years."
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"It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them."
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"Writing is my pleasure and the play,where I find myself again and again."
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"Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself."
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"There are days when writing is within my power and a story unfolds along a course I've already chosen. And then there are days when the words breathe on their own and take me by the hand, leading me along unfathomed paths. Either way, the end result is this author's fairytale."
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"My writings are my letters to the universe, who loved me like a mother."
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"Writing is a disease of the mind, which is expressed through a pen."
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"A writer's primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore's is to make cents."
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"What makes a writer a prophet is his ability to speak truth..."
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"The eloquence of the pen is just as sharp as the point of a sword."
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"A writer illuminates the lights of her heart so that everyone can see themselves in the mirror of her thoughts."
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"A couple of weeks after that, Zebra Books phoned with an offer, and I accepted."
Books
"For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn't outline much. I had a vague idea of the story."
Creativity
"When I decided to take writing seriously, I did a lot of reading and analyzing of the books I liked, and came up with what I thought were pretty sound plotting and structure basics."
Reading
"When I was a teenager, I got into SF, quite heavily, and that too has had a major impact on my writing."
Writing
"In the first year, 1988, I wrote and sold 3 novels."
Writing
"The benefit of this kind of outlining is that you discover a story's flaws before you invest a lot of time writing the first draft, and it's almost impossible to get stuck at a difficult chapter, because you've already done the work to push through those kinds of blocks."
Time
"So, I outlined a horror novel and started writing."
Horror
"Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I'd just finished was horror, too."
Horror
"Even the contemporary horror authors who have seriously influenced me are a disparate bunch."
Horror
"So, in effect, my first sale was actually two books."
Books
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