"Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them."

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"Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them."

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"While Fledging is a different type of book, The Parable series serve as cautionary tales. I wrote the Parable books because of the direction of the country. You can call it save the world fiction, but it clearly doesn't save anything."

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