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"A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story."
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"Style is primarily a matter of instinct."
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"The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason."
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"Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct."
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"It's a perfectly human instinct to want to be near water."
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"One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians were great for what situations. He could always pick a band, and that was the thing that separated him from everybody else."
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"When instinct speaks, listen to it. It might be the next push you need to reach greater heights."
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"A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy."
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"A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story."
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"What saves us from succumbing to utter meaninglessness is not reason but instinct."
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"Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it."
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"Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet."
Diversity
"A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story."
Instinct
"I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published."
Being
"The money can be decent, but I really don't recommend the work-for-hire route as an entry into publishing. Too many things can go wrong."
Money
"I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command."
Success
"For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel."
Writing
"My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history."
History
"When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery."
Computer
"Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment."
Balance
"It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle."
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