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"Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century."
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"I certainly hadn't expected to walk away from today's trip with joint custody of a miniature dragon."
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"Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century."
"I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web."
"In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known."
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"Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap. Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect."
"Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal. Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That's where the real danger lies."
"How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all."
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