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"The benefit of this kind of outlining is that you discover a story's flaws before you invest a lot of time writing the first draft, and it's almost impossible to get stuck at a difficult chapter, because you've already done the work to push through those kinds of blocks."
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"Life is defined by time and seasons."
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"If you want to know the value of a minute ask the person who came to the train station or airport a minute late."
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"Don't equate effective living to being busy."
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"All things are made beautiful at a timely hour."
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"We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it."
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"Any moment which is not captured is loss in the events of time."
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"I think Pete did have a hard time as a kid with his appearance. But don't all kids have a hard time? God, I had a hard time, too. I was little with bow legs and rickets. I used to get picked on like everybody used to get picked on."
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"Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever."
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"Time is a concrete product."
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"Time must be converted into product."
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"Even the contemporary horror authors who have seriously influenced me are a disparate bunch."
Horror
"In the first year, 1988, I wrote and sold 3 novels."
Writing
"Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I'd just finished was horror, too."
Horror
"So, in effect, my first sale was actually two books."
Books
"For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn't outline much. I had a vague idea of the story."
Creativity
"I spent two months on the first draft, working 8 hours a day, five days a week."
Writing
"Actually, the 14 novels were written over a period of just over 6 years."
Writing
"The way I outline has changed quite a bit from when I first started writing."
Writing
"Trying to break into the horror market seemed natural."
Horror
"When I was a teenager, I got into SF, quite heavily, and that too has had a major impact on my writing."
Writing
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