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"It's possible to become so comfortable with one's style and structure that one ceases to grow."
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"He looked like an evil male model, showing off what the fashionable college-age villain was wearing to Harvard this year."
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"A change in hairstyle gives a new look."
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"Proven professionals know that by focusing on quality, you can't lose with the classics and your clothes will last longer. It's not about having expensive clothing, it is about having style."
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"Have the nature of a dervish: then wear a stylish cap."
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"Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style."
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"Growing age can kill the beauty, not the style."
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"They've got this house style which is writer driven. I heard of one person who sent his script in, and Karen Berger said there weren't enough words in it. Put some more in."
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"I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style."
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"I didn't know a damn thing about style."
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"Peter, of the three of us, was our prince. He seemed so timeless. He had such elan and style."
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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."
Challenge
"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
"Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down."
Creativity
"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."
Universe
"A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story."
Instinct
"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
"For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel."
Writing
"It's possible to become so comfortable with one's style and structure that one ceases to grow."
Style
"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
"The money can be decent, but I really don't recommend the work-for-hire route as an entry into publishing. Too many things can go wrong."
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