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"If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."
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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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"Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name."
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"Do you genuinely love people? Or at least make an effort to like them? Your first impressions will be made easier and more successful when you start with your heart."
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"People do not understand what a great revenue economy is."
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"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown."
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"I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't."
Science
"One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane."
Writing
"Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go."
Writing
"It is a very natural human trait to destroy that which frightens us."
Psychology
"If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder."
Wonder
"Never trust people who smile constantly. They're either selling something or not very bright."
Psychology
"You can't save everybody. In fact, there are days when I think you can't save anyone. Each person has to save himself first, then you can move in and help. I have found this philosophy does not work during a gun battle, or a knife fight either. Outside of that it works just fine."
Responsibility
"Still it might be nice, once in a while, not to have to choose between evils. Just once, couldn't I choose the lesser good?"
Ethics
"I know, I know. I rescued him and he's bonded to me like a baby duck."
Relationship
"I don't have a master. I'm not sure if I have an equal."
Self
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