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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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"They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance."
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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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"The critic is to art what the limp penis is to sex."
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"I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result."
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"Either this wallpaper goes, or I do."
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"I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements."
Formula
"But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do."
Pleasure
"I maintain an ongoing survey of Internet Publishing and self publishing, so that it is now possible for any writer with a book to get it published at nominal cost or free, and to have it on sale at booksellers like Amazon.com."
Internet
"At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails."
Letters
"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 hope to read a Harry Potter novel soon, to see what it's all about. I admit to being annoyed that many good light fantasy writers have had trouble getting published, in England and elsewhere, when it is obvious the readers were waiting for us all along."
Hope
"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
"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
"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."
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