"It gets cold in the desert at night, particularly up in the mountains; the stars hammer on the rock and strike frost."
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"I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it."
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"The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis."
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"People are always the start for meanimals. When I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings,immortals, the deadthese are all people to me."
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"How massively the mountains stand, while low to the ground the sand blows. The sand blows on and on. And then there are no mountains, none at all, the sand has kissed and whispered them away. And still, the sand blows on."
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"Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root."
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"I held out my book. It was precious to me, as were all the things I'd written; even where I despised their inadequacy there was not one I would disown. Each tore its way from my entrails. Each had shortened my life, killed me with its own special little death."
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"A rose by any other name Would get the blame For being what it is-- The colour of a kiss, The shadow of a flame. A rose may earn another name, So call it love; So call it love I will, And love is like the sea, Which changes constantly, And yet is still The same."
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"What is any of this to us? Time is endless and ours. Love and Death are only the games we play in it."
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"It's lovely. I hate it."
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"I'm not very good at being alive. Sometimes I despair of ever mastering it, getting it right. When I'm old, perhaps."
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"Pirates have always fascinated me."
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"Im a devotee of Dracula, which was a pathfinder in horror and vampire fiction."
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"When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!"
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"Some writers, of course, simply write, as they feel they are driven to do, by outer/inner inspirations. If, after the work is written and, hopefully, published, others respond -- that is the Champagne. But we, or some of us, don't write for the Champagne. We write because we write."
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"If you run away from trouble, it always follows.' Rather my impression, too. Though that never stopped me trying."
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"Your dreams will betray you. Go nowhere on a horse that fades."
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"The humble were the elect of God. Did not the priests teach so, in their gemmed, kingly robes, from their towering pulpits?"
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"I tend not to analyse my work, though I'm frequently intrigued when other people take time to do so."
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"Tales of heroes end in bliss."
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