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- As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you…
- I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going…
- You get so caught up in what you're writing - action sequences tend to do that more than anything else because you're living it, and…
- -"Then what," Lededje asked, trying to keep her voice cold and not get caught up in the avatar´s obvious enthusiasm, "is making you smile about…
- Anyway, you can't leave her like that. You can't do that to the woman. She doesn't deserve it; nobody does. You don't belong to her…
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