The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
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Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect.
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Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
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Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.
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Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn’t difficult at all.
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I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes.
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In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.
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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.
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I’d really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it’s the wrong century.
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So rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.
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I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.
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The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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If you’re crazy, there’s two things you can do to make yourself feel better: One is to get yourself cured. The other is to make everyone you have to deal with crazy.
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Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer.
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