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"I guess if one set of my books was selling like Stephen King's, and the other wasn't selling at all, editors would want me to do the ones that sold like Stephen King's. But they seem to be willing to let me pick what I want to do next."
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"The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it."
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"Slow, Deep And Hard was a great album, even though it was probably our least selling record."
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"Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless."
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"Not offering this kind of guarantee means that they do not believe in their product enough, and they do not care about if a salesman is over promising or over selling their product."
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"The trade of banks is the buying and selling of interest and exchange."
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"Everyone lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it."
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"Selling eight million copies of your first album will mess you up."
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"Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me."
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"It defies common sense that stores are fined for selling toy guns to children, but someone who isn't even allowed to board an airplane in this country can purchase as many real guns he wants with no questions asked."
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"When in some communities selling drugs is so lucrative that that's a pretty big enticement that we have to break down. Part of that is by making opportunities and paying decent wages."
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"Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity."
Books
"I guess if one set of my books was selling like Stephen King's, and the other wasn't selling at all, editors would want me to do the ones that sold like Stephen King's. But they seem to be willing to let me pick what I want to do next."
Selling
"I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting published."
Thought
"And what we know, or think we know, about the universe of space and time is changing very quickly."
Time
"More immediately, I'm currently working on another Dracula in which there will be connections with ancient Egypt. That's about as far as I want to go in commenting on current work."
Work
"The Swords were still interesting but by then a cast of characters had started to appear and go on from book to book, and other things about the world began to feel constricting. And there were other things I wanted to do, so I closed the series up and stopped it."
World
"There are interactions with characters within the game which I think are pretty neatly done considering the limitations that you have to work with. I mean, a computer can't really generate a character that talks back and forth with you successfully."
Work
"I suspect that writer's block afflicts mainly people who have some stable and ample source of income outside of writing. So far it hasn't been a problem."
People
"The Berserkers have been with me for about forty years, and we're not done yet."
Loyalty
"I doubt I'll ever do another book collaboration; I've been spoiled. Roger and I both happened to move to New Mexico at about the same time, when we each had a family of young kids to raise. Socializing seemed to lead naturally to working together."
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