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"My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman."
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"One half who graduate from college never read another book."
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"Anyway, when I was a kid, I dutifully went to the Sydney Technical and Fine Arts College."
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"The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts."
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"My favorite NBA team are the houston rockets and favorite college team are the duke blue devils."
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"I always loved comedy but I didn't start formally until I was in college."
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"I went to college in Mississippi; I'm from Louisiana."
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"Sounds so silly, but I want to accomplish getting my kids through college."
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"The economic piece is still missing, since it's so hard to attract industry to reservations, but spiritually and educationally, they're doing just fine. Each tribe has a community college now, and they teach the language, they teach the traditions."
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"You know, I come from six generations of college graduates."
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"The Lord of the Rings movie set an entirely new standard for fantasy in the movies."
Movies
"I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research."
Science
"I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror."
Science
"Then, I realized that there is an indigenous presence in the Solar System. It's us. So, then, I got to wondering what would happen if a more technologically advanced society moved next door to us, the way we moved next door to the American Indians."
Society
"If I get blocked, it is generally because I don't know enough about some aspect of the story or the characters. The answer for this is generally more research, or making more background notes, so the place and person can be more fully realized inside my own mind."
Mind
"So, one of the things I was doing with the aliens in The Quiet Invasion was creating that advanced society which had ideas about morality and proper use of natural resources that were radically different from ours, as the Europeans were from the American Indians."
Society
"My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl."
Creativity
"Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author's life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be or not, and parenthood is one of the biggest life changes there is."
Change
"First and foremost, The Quiet Invasion is a first contact story. What would we do if we actually found evidence of alien life out there? It's also about politics."
Life
"When I was in college, I spent a summer working in London. I'd enjoyed tea before that, but then I got actual, really good tea there and never looked back."
College
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