"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."

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"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."

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"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."

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"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."

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"I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too."

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"I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out."

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

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"Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination."

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