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

"They're getting me involved in intrigue again, and I think it follows a classic formula in a soap opera."

"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."

"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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"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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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