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"I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans."
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"Thanks to bad graphic design, some readers love only the electronic version of some books."
"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."
"I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books."
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"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."
"My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history."
"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."
"I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium."
"It took me about 12 years to reach my million-word mark. The challenge now is to continue to challenge myself."
"A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story."
"If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer."
"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."
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