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I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

Because Books Brother Brother And Sister
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God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.

Bush Charms Else Fear
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If I tried to describe my personality, I'd start to gush about living by the ocean half my life and being brought up on 'Alice in Wonderland' and believing in magic for years and years.

About Alice Being Believing
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I never intended to be a professional writer; as the story developed, the one thing I had in my hopes was that this would be something tangible to separate me from the nameless, numbered masses.

Developed Had Hopes Intended
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I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

Had Hurry Mother Never
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I've always been a fighter. If you tell me I can't, I'll die trying to prove you wrong.
Always Been Die Fighter
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We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother - but... when she became our child, the affection came.

Affection Became Came Child
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So, while I gave up the notions of publishing at that time, I never stopped editing and refining that book. A few years later, in 1987, I thought I had it ready to go out again.

Again Book Editing Few
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Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.
Eldest Harm Mother Nature
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Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.

Alive Amazing Amazing Experience Characters
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Didn't you know I'm going to be the greatest, most entertaining author and artist in the world? Well, don't feel badly, I didn't either!
Artist Author Badly Either
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Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.

Book Expect Experience Me
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The U.N. doesn't have any troops; we borrow them from governments.

Any Borrow Governments Them
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I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives.

Adjectives Advances Being Felt
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I don't often know exactly what's coming next, and that makes it more fun. And you know, for me, this entire genre is all about that; it's all about having fun and getting away from the mundane world for just a little while.

About Away Coming Entire
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I see in Cambridge, particularly among the women dons, a series of such grotesques! It is almost like a caricature series from Dickens to see our head table at Newnham.

Almost Among Cambridge Caricature
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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

Account Always Another Complicated
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Sometimes leaders slide from the role of freedom fighter into the presidency, which they may be unsuited for, but everyone accepts it until they hit the bump in the road.

Accepts Bump Everyone Fighter
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Sometimes I walk into a situation and know someone is going to provoke me, and I just simply refuse to be provoked.

Going Just Know Provoke
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I'm trying to make all the characters change and grow, or regress.
Change Characters Grow Make
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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
Car Else Everything Get
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Often we mistake stability, in terms of security and economic activity, to mean a country is doing well. We forget the third and important pillar: rule of law and respect for human rights.

Activity Country Doing Economic
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The skills you need to fight the colonial power and the skills you need to gain independence are not necessarily the same you need to run a country.

Colonial Country Fight Gain
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Also, there are authors and publicists using the Internet to manipulate opinion, both positively for a work and negatively against the competition. I don't do this and can't stomach it, honestly.

Against Also Authors Both
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Change is a process which has to be managed.
Change Process Which
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

Democracy Half More People
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Writing is an incredibly lonely job.
Incredibly Job Lonely Writing
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The Arab Spring reminds me a bit of the decolonisation process where one country gets independence, and everybody else wants it.

Arab Spring Bit Country
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To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.

Becomes Christmas Difficult Every
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I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.

Any Beyond Book Business
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

Cracked Found Genius More
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I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

Arise Between Day Desire
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There is something suspect, especially in America, about people who don't have ten-year plans for a career or at least a regular job.

About America Career Job
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My own advice to people who would be in office for two or three terms is that they must accept democratic rotation: ideally, not put themselves up for re-election and allow the system to work.

Accept Advice Allow Democratic
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Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today.

Always Diversity Fantasy Genre
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I looked on my stomach and saw Frieda Rebecca, white as flour with the cream that covers new babies, funny little dark squiggles of hair plastered over her head, with big, dark-blue eyes.

Babies Big Covers Cream
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

Facts Form Get Great
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Having wrong friends and yet expecting a great future is like building a house using inferior materials.

Future Great Wrong Friends
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This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal.

Accolades Anyone Internal Journey
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.

Agreement Among Countries Disagreement
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
Bad Hard Hard Work Health
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I think that personal experience is very important, but certainly it shouldn't be a kind of shut-box and mirror-looking, narcissistic experience. I believe it should be relevant, and relevant to the larger things, the bigger things, such as Hiroshima and Dachau and so on.

Believe Bigger Certainly Experience
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That's the whole point of writing to me - I put my characters under incredible duress, and from that comes their truth. In a way, I'm using them to try to find my own answers in life.

Answers Characters Find Incredible
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Give good counsels and advice but leave people to make their own decisions..some people never learn until they “learn lessons”.

Learn Never People Advice
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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

Along Friend Good Good Writer
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Science fiction is the ugly stepchild of mainstream literature, and fantasy is the ugly stepchild of science fiction, and tie-in novels are the ugly stepchild of fantasy... and on and on and on.

Fantasy Fiction Literature Mainstream
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When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

About Beyond Bury Child
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The most common criticism I've seen is that I write 'popcorn fantasy:' lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.

Call Common Cool Criticism
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

Luck Men Mention Presence
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Fantasy is like an idealized reality, and the core of fantasy is the one person can make a difference.

Core Difference Fantasy Like
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