I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.

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Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.

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A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.

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Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.

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What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.

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After all, you put a lot into creating a universe and everything that goes with it, and it seems a shame to use it only once.

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We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making.

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On the other hand, I still approach each book with the same basic plan in mind - to put some people under severe stress and see how they hold up.

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My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name a few.

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I want you, as a reader, to experience what I experience, to let that other world, that imaginary world that I have created, tell you things about the real world.

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