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That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.
Walter Jon Williams
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For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone.
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The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.
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I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.
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I now have to find a reason to write, every single day.
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I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days.
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Some of my ideas were shot down by Lucasfilm because they stepped on territory that has been reserved for the movies. I didn't have a problem with that.
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An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table.
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I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get.
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Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.
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I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.
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Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can.
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Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.
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It's hard to generalize, because they're all different. When I started, I decided to take as much advantage as I could of the freedom offered by the SF field.
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