In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it.
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It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.
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I never do a full outline, and if I did, I would not feel bound to it, because the view from inside a scene can be different from the view outside it. But neither do I just start writing and see what happens; I am far more disciplined than that.
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But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do.
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Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a tape of a later one, and it's fun.
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SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.
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I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.
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I hope to read a Harry Potter novel soon, to see what it's all about. I admit to being annoyed that many good light fantasy writers have had trouble getting published, in England and elsewhere, when it is obvious the readers were waiting for us all along.
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That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.
