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"But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do."
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"My senses are alive with pleasure and joy."
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"He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce."
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"I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure."
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"It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses."
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"This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it."
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"I find pleasure in things that are simple."
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"Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something."
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"But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do."
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"Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare."
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"The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor."
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"I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements."
Formula
"But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do."
Pleasure
"I maintain an ongoing survey of Internet Publishing and self publishing, so that it is now possible for any writer with a book to get it published at nominal cost or free, and to have it on sale at booksellers like Amazon.com."
Internet
"At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails."
Letters
"I hope to read a Harry Potter novel soon, to see what it's all about. I admit to being annoyed that many good light fantasy writers have had trouble getting published, in England and elsewhere, when it is obvious the readers were waiting for us all along."
Hope
"One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need."
Reason
"SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible."
Literature
"Normally I work out a general summary of what I mean to do, then start writing, and the details can be different from my anticipation. So there is considerable flow, but always within channels."
Work
"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."
First
"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."
Writing
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