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- I hate outlines. I have a broad sense of where the story is going; I know the end, I know the end of the principal…
- Life is very full of sex, or should be. As much as I admire Tolkien - and I do, he was a giant of fantasy…
- I would also suggest that any aspiring writer begin with short stories. These days, I meet far too many young writers who try to start…
- Nothing bores me more than books where you read two pages and you know exactly how it's going to come out. I want twists and…
- I've been very lucky. There were times when I was afraid I would never sell another book, but I never doubted I'd write another book.
- Ten years from now, no one is going to care how quickly the books came out. The only thing that will matter, the only thing…
- People are going to die who don't die in the books, so even the book readers will be unhappy. So everybody better be on their…
- If the novels are still being read in 50 years, no one is ever going to say: 'What's great about that sixth book is that…
- It’s being ready to accept rejection. You can work on a book for two years and get it published, and it’s like you may as…
- The way my books are structured, everyone was together, then they all went their separate ways and the story deltas out like that, and now…
- Names are hard. I have a library of What to Name Your Baby books, and I’m always picking up new books, and books of baby…
- [as for evolution]....cutting out the sections [on the subject] is preferrable if the portions are not thick enough to cause damage to the spine of…
- As a writer, my goal, (which I'm never going to achieve, and I know that, and no writer can achieve that,) but my goal is…
- I work for two years on a book and it comes out and two days later I've got my first e-mail: When is the next…
- The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems like real life is flickering…
- I had a couple of friends, but I was mostly the kid with his nose in a book.
- I have idea files of books that I want to write one of these days, stories I want to write one of these days, but…
- I've written some standalone novels, but a book series allows fans in. There's much more intense involvement.
- One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not predictable.
- I grew up with four T.V. channels. If you missed a show, you missed it. You gotta wait a week for the next one. I'd…
- I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and that's why I…
- I knew that, when writing a book, you're not constrained by a budget. You're not constrained by what you can do, in terms of the…
- I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should…
- I'm a huge fan of Tolkien. I read those books when I was in junior high school and high school, and they had a profound…
- Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're starting fantasy, don't…
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