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Fiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science fiction or fan...more

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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 grieve if a fictional charac...more

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I often said that writers are of two types.There is the architect, which is one type. The architect, as if designing a building, lays out the entire n...more

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I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The architects plan everything ahead of time, like an architect building a h...more

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Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.

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It's not a career for anyone who needs or values security. It's a career for gamblers. Every time you write a book you roll the dice again.

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A book can be as dangerous as a sword in the right hands

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Time is different for a tree than for a man. Sun and soil and water, these are the things a weirwood understands, not days and years and centuries. Fo...more

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A book can be as dangerous as a sword in the right hands, said Haldon.

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Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all we know of the days to come.

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So do not waste my time. It is the most precious thing I have, time. It is the most precious thing any of us have.