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"My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea."
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"You would be amazed by how I can torture the English language. I am an abusive lover."
"Imagination is phenomenal."
"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."
"Develop your own skills and styles. In music, designing, electronics, etc., you may have a peculiar way of exposing your dreams in an uncommon way."
"A creative mind is a spark of divinity."
"Flawed genius is better than flawless talent."
"People have many cruel expectations from writers. People expect novelists to live on a hill with three kids and a spouse, people expect children's story writers to never have sex, and people expect all great poets to be dead. And these are all very difficult expectations to fulfill, I think."
"I write to fill my mind with the ecstasy of life."
"If imagination is your wealth, then ideas are your abode."
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"Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on."
"There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives."
"When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else."
"We already live a very long time for mammals, getting three times as many heartbeats as a mouse or elephant. It never seems enough though, does it?"
"She had called in the debt that parents owe a child for bringing her, unasked, into a strange world. One should never make an offer without knowing full well what will happen if it is accepted."
"When I begin a book, I inevitably discover many things along the way, about the characters, their past histories and the political intrigues that surround them. This discovery process is vital, and I would not prejudice it by deciding too much in advance."
"Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it down. It's happened many times in the past. It could happen to us."
"One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events."
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