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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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"If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?"
"I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips."
"It's not as if there's a noise problem, because they use the same circuits as Formula One."
"They're getting me involved in intrigue again, and I think it follows a classic formula in a soap opera."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there."
"I wish my readers took less of my time - about a third of my working time goes to them - but I love and need them all."
"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."
"In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it."
"One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need."
"It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it."
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