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"I haven't made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books."
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"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."
"I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only thing that kept me from teetering into utter despair."
"I had forgotten what fiction was to me as a boy, forgotten what it was like in the library: fiction was an escape from the intolerable, a doorway into impossibly hospitable worlds where things had rules and could be understood; stories had been a way of learning about life without experiencing it, or perhaps of experiencing it as an eighteenth-century poisoner dealt with poisons, taking them in tiny doses, such that the poisoner could cope with ingesting things that would kill someone who was not inured to them. Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it."
"Some books mirror reality while others are entirely fantasy. My favorite are those that manage to weave both into a world."
"When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults."
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"In bad weather, I spent hours drawing action figures on paper, coloring them, backing them on cardboard, then cutting them out and creating whole stories around their lives."
"Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost."
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"We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making."
"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."
"My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name a few."
"On the other hand, I still approach each book with the same basic plan in mind - to put some people under severe stress and see how they hold up."
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