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I feel very conscious of my influences. T.H. White is very important for me.

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In a way fighting was just like using magic. You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall, drive people away, make yourself feel better, make your life worse.
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Damage Fall Fighting Merely Pain
I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.
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College Littles Long Study
Don’t take anyone’s writing advice too seriously.
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Advice Seriously Writing
The danger would be going back, or staying still. The only way out was through. The past was ruins, but the present was still in play.
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Past Play Ruin Stay
Maybe there’s a sense that technology isn’t necessarily the answer to a lot of our problems. Fantasy offers readers a less radically alienated world – a world where desires and feelings that normally are trapped inside your mind are made real in the form of magic.
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Feelings Real Technology
You’re all so obsessed with other worlds, you’re so convinced that this one is crap and everywhere else is great, but you’ve never bothered to figure out what’s going on here!
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Contentment Obsessed Other Worlds
You’re saying the gods don’t have free will.” “The power to make mistakes,” Penny said. “Only we have that. Mortals
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Choices Mistakes Pennies
Careful what you hunt, lest you catch it.
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Careful Catch Hunts Lest
I recognize that on paper, you can’t really tell that I’m a fan or a nerd.
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Fans Nerd Paper Trouble
It turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy.
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Easy Turnsm Something
He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.
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Complete Merely Quest Something
He wasn’t surprised. He was used to this anticlimactic feeling, where by the time you’ve done all the work to get something you don’t even want it anymore.
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Anticlimactic Done Feelings Something Want
People – me included – want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.
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Book People Want
I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.
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East Tribe Way
A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I’ve just gotten in the habit of forgiving.
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Book Forgiving Habit
We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.
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Ignorance Neglect Rulers

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