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"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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"To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time."

"The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second."

"There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations."

"If ever there was a time for true bipartisanship, it is today."
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"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."

"But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end."

"What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food."

"I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens."

"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."

"I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom."
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