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"Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience."
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"Reality spilled out into the alley like water from an overfilled bowl - as sound, as smell, as image, as plea, as response."
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"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."
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"Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation."
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"Observing and commenting, it is a piece of cake.Experiencing and sharing, that is a piece of work."
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"Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience."
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"Experience, derived from scientific investigation, led to all the scientific literature in history. Likewise, experience, derived from religious transcendence, led to all the religious scriptures in history. It's never the other way around."
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"We just had a near-life experience!"
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"Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure."
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"It must be a really great book because one can read it as a boy in one way, and then re-read it in middle life and get something very different out of it - and that to my mind is one of the best tests."
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"I am torn between the freedom of this adventure and the benefits of civilization despite its constraints."
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"I don't consciously do anything to maintain a unique voice."
Voice
"What I look for in any character, good or bad, is whether I can hear him speak. If I can imagine him that clearly, then I can write about him."
Character
"I do have to earn a living, so I'm conscious of probable reactions from readers, but the most important one is still the awareness that if I'm not enjoying a story, the reader won't either."
Awareness
"Being comfortable isn't the way to learn to expand your abilities."
Being
"I don't have dry seasons, because I don't allow them."
Seasons
"I do want to write about Jane Whitefield again, but only when I have a good enough idea - something I've figured out about her that's news and that's worth a reader's time."
Time
"I think we did a great job of putting together a program that would have made good e-books available had people been buying e-books in any real numbers."
People
"But at the same time, the commonplace statement about them is true: every character is the hero of his own story. Each has a justification for his actions that is convincing to him. It's fun to give these people voices."
Time
"I do like to explore evil characters in my books."
Books
"Once you have invented a character with three dimensions and a voice, you begin to realize that some of the things you'd like him to do to further your plot are things that such a person wouldn't, or couldn't, do."
Character
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