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I feel that if you are blessed, or lucky enough, to be doing well, you should help others.
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Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book.
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Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks.
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If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder.
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What we prefer to read is sort of like sexual preference, you like what you like. Most of the time you have no clue why.
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If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself.
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I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't.
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I want a kiss to be so believable it give the reader shivers.
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My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail.
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I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print.
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My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends - I can give them advice, but they don't have to take it. If your characters are real, then they surprise you, just like real people.
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I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn't write or read horror or fantasy, other than children's fantasy, until I was in my teens.
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I'm more influenced by my own interests than anyone else's. Writers have to entertain themselves, or they can't entertain anyone else.
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