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"There are advantages to being a star though - you can always get a table in a full restaurant."

"Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid."

"So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level."

"I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him."

"Being a press secretary is like learning to type: You're hunting and pecking for a while and then you find yourself doing the touch system and don't realize it. You're speaking for the president without ever having to go to him."

"Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch."

"I'm so gullible. I'm so damn gullible. And I am so sick of me being gullible."
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"But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end."

"What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food."

"I don't often reread my own books, unless I am going into another in the series and need to refresh my mood when originating the concept."

"That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house."

"That's what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there."

"I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need."

"Because we build the worlds we wouldn't mind living in. They contain scary things, problems, but also a sense of rightness that makes them alive and makes us want to live there."
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