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"I've learned that I get blocked when my subconscious mind is telling me that I've taken the work in a wrong direction, and that once I start listening to what my subconscious is trying to tell me, I can work out the problem and get moving again."
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"I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price."
Technology
"That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door."
Authority
"The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years."
Writer
"When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power."
Power
"Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science."
Science
"An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table."
Experience
"I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me."
Time
"I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored."
Universe
"Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background, which is usually the hardest part."
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"I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days."
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"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."
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"The world system is employment."
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"Police officers are poorly paid for a very stressful job that has them in very high powered radio frequency (RF) fields and in a daily environment that may result in them being assaulted, maimed or killed."
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"A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing."
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"I was cranked to a fifth gear, and everything I did, I did on a deadline."
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"Do not be weary to make money."
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"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."
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"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."
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"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."
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"Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are."
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