"But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do."

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"But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do."

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"I do one Xanth novel a year, because at the moment that is all that publishers will accept; they don't want any other type of fiction from me, so Xanth pays my way."

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"I did not know at first that it would be a series; I discovered after the first novel that I had more to say about it, so I did another. And another, and then the readers demanded yet more."

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"At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails."

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"I never do a full outline, and if I did, I would not feel bound to it, because the view from inside a scene can be different from the view outside it. But neither do I just start writing and see what happens; I am far more disciplined than that."

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Hope

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Internet