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"I'm dense when it comes to discouragement."
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"Confrontation affords you the opportunity to hear the other side of the story."
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"Meetings! Meetings! Meetings!Do they ever achieve anything or do they just let a lot of hot air out of an already over inflated balloon?"
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"To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness."
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"When you talk, use words that inspire you and others."
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"To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience ultimately one must have one's experiences in common."
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"Wouldn't it be wonderful to be a natural communicator and know exactly what, when, why, and how to speak so that your message is conveyed and received as you intend?"
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"Active listening is key to all healthy and effective communication, however, it doesn't necessarily come easily."
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"A very unwise man once said, "He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words." A very annoyed woman once said, "He who does not want to communicate will never enjoy their silence for very long."
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"The longer a person's twitter @username is, the harder it is to argue with them - on twitter."
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"The big, bad unknown is only that until it is known. Then you look back and wonder what all the fuss and worry was about."
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"No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge."
Time
"That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me."
Faith
"My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history."
History
"I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans."
Books
"I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre."
Creativity
"I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium."
Reading
"Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy."
Universe
"When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat."
Creativity
"It took me about 12 years to reach my million-word mark. The challenge now is to continue to challenge myself."
Challenge
"A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story."
Instinct
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