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"If I get blocked, it is generally because I don't know enough about some aspect of the story or the characters. The answer for this is generally more research, or making more background notes, so the place and person can be more fully realized inside my own mind."
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"The resolved mind hath no cares."
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"A mind grows by what it feeds on."
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"Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind."
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"The mind of a baby is a tabula rasa, society writes information on his mind."
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"Never mind a world that can't see past brutality."
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"When you spend time worrying, you're simply using your imagination to create things you don't want."
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"Insanity is catching."
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"The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents."
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"A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind."
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"Your mind is a garden; plant positivity."
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"My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl."
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"Now, of course, the great thing about the solar system as a frontier is that there are no Indians, so you can have all the glory of the myth of the American westward expansion without any of the guilt."
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"I feel SF is going through an experimental phase right now."
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"I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind."
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"Then, I realized that there is an indigenous presence in the Solar System. It's us. So, then, I got to wondering what would happen if a more technologically advanced society moved next door to us, the way we moved next door to the American Indians."
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"I did not want to write a story about the invasion of Earth, so I had to create a race capable of living nearby, which meant to either on the Moon, on Mars, or on Venus. I picked Venus."
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"First and foremost, The Quiet Invasion is a first contact story. What would we do if we actually found evidence of alien life out there? It's also about politics."
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"Actually, after while, finding the ideas is the easy part. Sorting them through and turning them into stories, now, that's the hard work."
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"When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking."
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"Now, Venus is an extremely hostile environment, and as such presents a lot of challenges for a science fiction author who wants to create life there. However, as I began to research it more thoroughly, I found myself intrigued by the possibilities the world offers."
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