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"I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments."
Job
"I always had this non-stop drive. I had to keep sending stories out and every once in awhile I'd get something accepted or get the little trickle of positive feedback."
Positive
"If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be."
Time
"I mean, I wasn't stupid. I knew we'd make money and sell a lot of Dune books."
Money
"My total year's income from working as hard as I possibly could from writing went from like $30 one year to about $70 the next year. And it made me realize that maybe you couldn't really pay the rent that way."
Income
"There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature."
Romantic
"We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up."
Prequels
"I did several interesting jobs, working in restaurants, I worked at a lab rat farm, feeding and watering all these rats. Then I got a full-time job as a technical writer for a large scientific research laboratory."
Job
"Sure, President Bush can say that the U.S. government won't fund stem cell research, but believe me, Japan is applauding. Because they will just do it first and get all the patents."
Government
"I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on."
Time
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"The novel is born not of the theoretical spirit but of the spirit of humor."
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Personal Development
"But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Between Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was an immense production of novels, illustrated by not a few names which should rank high in the second class, while some would promote more than one of them to the first."
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Personal Development
"I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old."
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