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Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.

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

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

The big battle at the end of DW isn't drawn from history, but it's influenced by history, certainly.

if a person of authority talks only to those who agree with him he soon finds himself out of authority.

Luke

An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table.

Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.

When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.

If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.

I now have to find a reason to write, every single day.

I'm not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I'm afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings.

I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.

How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.

May I ask what role you envision for the Jedi in this war
Two words Skywalker. None whatsoever.

Luke Rodan

For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone.

I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.

I hate it!" he said. "I don't want to be human anymore."
"Neither do I," she said. "It's not a good place to be.

Terror skittered around the fringes of his consciousness on fast rodent feet.

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

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

I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.

Gabriel flashed him the one-fingered Mudra of Contempt.

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

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

The mass-market paperback, for one, is too expensive.

When all else fails fall back on the truth.
No I'm a politician I can't tell the truth

Mara Cal Omas

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

The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.

Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.