"I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction."

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"Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on."

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"And, of course, some SF is set close enough to here and now that Anglo and European do apply. Since many of the writers come from those backgrounds, so does much of the fiction."

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"Villainessa Tittel was a hired killer, an assassin by trade. She had enjoyed the best education and had been trained by assassins who had (until then at least) been considered the best in the business. She had turned to 'cleaning' as an occupation because she really enjoyed endings more than beginnings " and anyway, she didn't need to know her mark's entire pedigree or life's story, or to have some kind of facetious moral justification just to collect her fee. Unsurprisingly, when she did read " on those rare occasions " her books were always dog-eared from the back."

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"I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying."

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"But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in the novel...it's ridiculous. That novel was composed of scratches on a page, dear. The characters inhabiting it have no life outside of those scratches. What happened to them? They all ceased to exist the moment the novel ended."

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"It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is."

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"So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it."

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"When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books."

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"One of my degrees was a science degree in biology."

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"It's hard to hold the focus that strongly on a single character for that long."

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"There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person."

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"My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus."

Education

"Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people."

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"I used to not back down from a challenge."

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"When I was quite young, she was working in a hardware store, so I grew up knowing about hardware."

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