But it's not just a game of finding literary references.

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It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?

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I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.

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As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction.

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No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.

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It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri.

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I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.

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The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.

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But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.

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It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.

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