"I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published."

Being, Fantasy, Writer

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"I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published."

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"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."

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"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."

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"Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, then their futures are ensured."

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"There is nothing that compares to an unexpected round of applause."

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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."

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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."

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"I'm dense when it comes to discouragement."

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"I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command."

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"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."

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"Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down."

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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."

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