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"On the other hand, now that I'm not dependent on fiction for my income, I've been writing more short stories despite the fact that there's no real paying market for short horror other than Cemetery Dance."
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"I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent."
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"Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance."
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"We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry."
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"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying."
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"Dance with your own way with your own tune no matter who watches it."
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"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."
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"Dance like no one is watching, love like you have never been hurt."
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"It takes a lot of guts to get up on top of a bar and dance."
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"I wanted to be Gene Kelly. Well really, I just wanted to dance with Cyd Charisse."
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"I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance."
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"So, I outlined a horror novel and started writing."
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"When I was a teenager, I got into SF, quite heavily, and that too has had a major impact on my writing."
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"Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I'd just finished was horror, too."
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"A couple of weeks after that, Zebra Books phoned with an offer, and I accepted."
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"For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn't outline much. I had a vague idea of the story."
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"Even the contemporary horror authors who have seriously influenced me are a disparate bunch."
Horror
"The way I outline has changed quite a bit from when I first started writing."
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"In the first year, 1988, I wrote and sold 3 novels."
Writing
"Trying to break into the horror market seemed natural."
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"I'm a fan of short horror fiction... in fact, the most memorable horror I've read is of the short variety... but I have a hard time pulling it off myself."
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