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"That's what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there."
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"When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants."
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"Only those who want everything done for them are bored."
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"Tyrants seldom want pretexts."
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"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say."
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"Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do."
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"I don't have any pangs to where I want to be with the Broncos."
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"I want to do everything in the world that can be done."
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"If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance."
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"It's not that you want to sing, it's that you have to sing."
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"So basically it's very simple: to start with, if you want to win the match, you shouldn't be afraid of him. There are still many, many things to do, but above all this is the most important: Don't be scared of him!"
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"I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime."
Chance
"I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with which they might be dealing on a close scale."
Writing
"The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it."
Emotional
"That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house."
Beginning
"Because we build the worlds we wouldn't mind living in. They contain scary things, problems, but also a sense of rightness that makes them alive and makes us want to live there."
Living
"I have my good days and my bad days, but I don't have as much energy as I used to back when I was young and foolish and didn't count the cost - and it takes a lot - to write."
Energy
"I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel."
Time
"I don't often reread my own books, unless I am going into another in the series and need to refresh my mood when originating the concept."
Books
"I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens."
Books
"People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?"
Life
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