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"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."

"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."

"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."
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"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."

"People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?"

"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."

"That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house."

"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."

"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."

"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."
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