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What kind of fool had he been, to throw away romance untried?

But one must go where one's road leads, even when it's a distressing road.

Brevity did not mean inconsequence...

The sweetest temptation could be that which was known to be the most foolish.

She would have to ride the nightmare in her sleep. Only that would keep it material, or enable her to dematerialize with it.

God created the earth but the Devil evolved it.

If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case.

Decent folk had to let indecent folk do their thing; that was the paradox of decency.

A horse is wonderful by definition.

When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void.

Enough , you hens!" Niobe exploded. "It's tentative!"
Lachesis snorted "As tentative as a pregnancy,girl!

SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.

Evil can never touch the person who refuses to accept it.

At the time I wrote Xone I had never been on the Internet.

What splendor nature proffered to the eye of any man who had half the wit to appreciate it!

What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit.

Robert Jordan ... is a lot of writer

People talk
they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.

It is the man who can't be trusted who does not trust others because he judges them by himself.

All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.

By all means. Swords have ever been the best servants of crazy men.

When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there.

Yes, I'm always hungry after a fatal injury.
Jordan

Have a working spouse, because you won't earn a living from writing - not at first, if ever. My wife worked for years to support us.

Bink knew the dolphin only from old pictures; it was a kind of magic fish that breathed air instead of water.

One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.

But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do.

You don't have to settle for what you are at this moment. You can work to make a difference.
Chex

The biggest fool is the one who thinks he knows it all.

It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.

Polishing: a useful lesson for the hopeful writer. You say your tormented prose doesn't read as well as mine? Neither does mine, at first!

I turned my home state of Florida into the Land of Xanth.

That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.

At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.

Terry Pratchett's right up my alley ... give him a try!

Never thought I'd see the day when Death was denied. That leaves taxes as the only certainty.

We are all creatures of our ancestry! There is no right and wrong, objectively.

Do you seek to bribe Death? Zane asked, half angry and two-thirds curious.

For our stories are not yet finished, and perhaps will never be.

Obviously it could be, because it was.

Information is power.
Humfrey

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

Hell hath little fury like that of a critic who sees a writer make it big.

I wish my readers took less of my time - about a third of my working time goes to them - but I love and need them all.

Every person professes to love good and hate evil, but in his actions his real preferences emerges.

If the fiercest conglomerate monsters had souls, with all that implied, who could condemn them as evil?

I have, as may be apparent, not much respect for editors as a class.

Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?
Then, leave me to my foolishness.

Dor shook his head. Such mysteries were beyond his fathoming. All he could do was ... what he could do.

Be what you are; it is better that way.
--Dolph

One day you'll discover that the opinions of worthless people are worthless.

Happy children do not seem to grow up to be writers.

Dor woke again as dawn came. The sun had somehow gotten around to the east, where the land was, and dried off so that it could shine again.