"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."

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"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."

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"The Swords were still interesting but by then a cast of characters had started to appear and go on from book to book, and other things about the world began to feel constricting. And there were other things I wanted to do, so I closed the series up and stopped it."

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