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"I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach."

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"If you want to be happy, be."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"Only those who want everything done for them are bored."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"I do want to go another way - to write something completely different."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

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"If you want to be loved, be lovable."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"Don't say "the White House wants." Buildings can't want."

Donald Rumsfeld, American Politician

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"I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements."

Penelope Lively, English Author

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"I'm not going to become anybody I don't want to become."

Kristen Bell, American Actress

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"Star Trek has brought so much of what I want within my grasp."

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"Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science."

Science

"I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me."

Time

"I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored."

Universe

"I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days."

Collaboration

"It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak."

Endurance

"Now I have to motivate myself much more than I had previously."

Now

"Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience."

Help

"It's hard to generalize, because they're all different. When I started, I decided to take as much advantage as I could of the freedom offered by the SF field."

Freedom

"Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can."

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"I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get."

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