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"When I was quite young, she was working in a hardware store, so I grew up knowing about hardware."
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"What's the point of using words nobody knows or can say comfortably?"
"One should always cite what one does not understand at all in the language one understands the least."
"Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is."
"We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
"Why people use "Was" I have heard some people to say "I was a smart kid at school - Eminem", but why "Was", was is a word for describing the past... which will mean that has started and ended... so what??? How to get it now? You aren't wise, are you?"
"Words themselves are neutral. It's the charge we add to them that matters."
"Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language."
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"I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting."
"Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women."
"When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books."
"You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses."
"When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans."
"Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people."
"I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?"
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