"I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements."

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"I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements."

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"Having a set, popular formula does inhibit you."

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"The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want to know which standards you're going to play. I'm saying let's break the formula."

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"I think "Hero" is not a real martial arts movie; it is not about violence, or formula."

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"I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips."

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"I go to see grand prix every year, and I watch every race on TV for sure. I probably go to three or four CART races and three or four Formula One races."

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"Under each formula lies a corpse."

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"Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn't done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia."

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"SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible."

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"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."

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"At the time I wrote Xone I had never been on the Internet."

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"Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a tape of a later one, and it's fun."

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"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."

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"I have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers today may be too young to remember his classics like The Lovers."

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"At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails."

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"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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"It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it."

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