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"Lured by the wilderness, and by the chance of spotting rare desert elephants, a few intrepid tourists make their way to the Skeleton Coast each year. It's just about as remote as any tourist destination on earth, but one that pays fabulous dividends."

"If you knew what lies ahead on the path, it would not be an adventure, now would it?"

"There's only one place I want to go and it's to all the places I've never been."

"I sail on the ocean of possibilities with the wind of hope and the current of desires moving me to the shore of uncertainty."

"Snakes don't have fuckin' legs, so how was I supposed to think there'd be one hidin' in the face of a damn rock that's ten feet below the summit?"
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"In bad weather, I spent hours drawing action figures on paper, coloring them, backing them on cardboard, then cutting them out and creating whole stories around their lives."


"Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list."


"I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say to themselves that the fabric of the magic detailed was perfectly believable."


"After all, you put a lot into creating a universe and everything that goes with it, and it seems a shame to use it only once."


"Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the lives of my characters, as well, albeit on a much different level."


"I want you, as a reader, to experience what I experience, to let that other world, that imaginary world that I have created, tell you things about the real world."


"What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly."


"I remember one winter, when I was about five or six, I spent three days with another boy, tracking a bobcat that had been sighted in another county fifty miles away, but which I was sure had come into our neighborhood."
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