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"I want to make it so that so many things happen... that you didn't expect would happen in this series, that you realize that you have to read every one of them."
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"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say."
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"I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write."
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"It's not having what you want, it's wanting what you've got."
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"Of course, I want to sell this record - there's no point making it otherwise."
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"There is so much to do, and I want to continue my efforts."
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"I never want to fake it. That's my whole thing."
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"I always write the pieces I want to write."
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"I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it."
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"The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive."
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"I want to keep a mysterious side to me. I want to keep a mysterious side to me."
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"The great secret behind classified projects is that most of them are so utterly boring and uninteresting that James Bond wouldn't even take a second look at them."
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"The people who make policy decisions should damned well know what they are talking about before they make the decisions. There is nobody who is an expert on cloning who would be afraid after seeing Attack of the Clones."
People

"I did several interesting jobs, working in restaurants, I worked at a lab rat farm, feeding and watering all these rats. Then I got a full-time job as a technical writer for a large scientific research laboratory."
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"It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas."
Imagination

"One of the things that was kind of shocking for humans... was to come to terms with was the fact that, hey, we may not be the center of the universe."
Fact

"My dad is a bank president and my mom was an accountant and they didn't think that seeking the life of a freelance writer was very practical, you see. Of course, I was just as determined to do it."
Family

"I think now I'm up to something like 85 different titles that I've published."
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"Telling your story out loud is the way human beings communicate. We don't normally think up words, translate how to spell them and then move our fingers up and down over this randomly arranged set of keys to make the same letters appear on a screen."
Telling

"I always had this non-stop drive. I had to keep sending stories out and every once in awhile I'd get something accepted or get the little trickle of positive feedback."
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"I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a letter to you and you read the letter, there are like 12 extra deconstruction and reconstruction steps in the communication."
Communication
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