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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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"You want the audience to be uncomfortable."
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"I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything."
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"With yourself, I think you have to decide the kind of person that you really want to be, and for me, it's just a sweet girl."
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"If you want to be happy, be."
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"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."
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"And I want to say anything is possible. Comma. You know."
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"When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants."
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"There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means."
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"Only those who want everything done for them are bored."
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"I didn't really want to be a comedian."
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"I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out."
Language

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

"Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the lives of my characters, as well, albeit on a much different level."
Self

"Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant than Florida, but I can tell you things about Florida and alligators, let you make the connection all on your own."
Connection

"I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you."
Imagination

"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."
Experience

"We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making."
People

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

"I remember one winter, when I was about five or six, I spent three days with another boy, tracking a bobcat that had been sighted in another county fifty miles away, but which I was sure had come into our neighborhood."
Childhood

"Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost."
Travel
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