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"Either this wallpaper goes, or I do."
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"I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result."
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"The critic is to art what the limp penis is to sex."
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"When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there."
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"How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can't make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless.""Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.""I say it's perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances."
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"They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance."
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"As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not that the books are bad; editors won't even read them."
Books
"When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there."
Humorous
"I do one Xanth novel a year, because at the moment that is all that publishers will accept; they don't want any other type of fiction from me, so Xanth pays my way."
Fiction
"I did not know at first that it would be a series; I discovered after the first novel that I had more to say about it, so I did another. And another, and then the readers demanded yet more."
First
"Keep writing, because not only does practice improve skill, it gives you more chances to score on the market. I did that for eight years before making my first sale."
Writing
"Normally I work out a general summary of what I mean to do, then start writing, and the details can be different from my anticipation. So there is considerable flow, but always within channels."
Work
"One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need."
Reason
"SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible."
Literature
"I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements."
Formula
"At the time I wrote Xone I had never been on the Internet."
Time
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