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- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature.
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is.
- Realize
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to make it so that so many things happen... that you didn't expect would happen in this series, that you realize that you have to read every one of them.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always turn in my books on time, so you can always count on a book coming out when it's supposed to.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wouldn't you like to have an augmented memory chip that you could plug into your head so you don't have to look everything up and remember everything?
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a letter to you and you read the letter, there are like 12 extra deconstruction and reconstruction steps in the communication.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the years, I've trained myself to speak using the same language I would use if I were typing: meaning using full sentences in the way that paragraphs and scenes are arranged.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people who make policy decisions should damned well know what they are talking about before they make the decisions. There is nobody who is an expert on cloning who would be afraid after seeing Attack of the Clones.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do you want Columbus to go across the ocean, or do you want to put a message in a bottle and hope that it lands somewhere? I'd rather have actual people be there. Whether they look like Americans or like the inhabitants of some other country, depends on who has the most drive.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad is a bank president and my mom was an accountant and they didn't think that seeking the life of a freelance writer was very practical, you see. Of course, I was just as determined to do it.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
My total year's income from working as hard as I possibly could from writing went from like $30 one year to about $70 the next year. And it made me realize that maybe you couldn't really pay the rent that way.
- Full-Time Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did several interesting jobs, working in restaurants, I worked at a lab rat farm, feeding and watering all these rats. Then I got a full-time job as a technical writer for a large scientific research laboratory.
- Boring
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great secret behind classified projects is that most of them are so utterly boring and uninteresting that James Bond wouldn't even take a second look at them.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it. Then I'd go home at night and turn what I learned into science fiction stories.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sure, President Bush can say that the U.S. government won't fund stem cell research, but believe me, Japan is applauding. Because they will just do it first and get all the patents.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always had this non-stop drive. I had to keep sending stories out and every once in awhile I'd get something accepted or get the little trickle of positive feedback.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020