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To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.

~Gary Jennings

Topics: Afghanistan Camel Caravan Get Smugglers Way

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I learned to interpret the ancient pictograph codices and read Nahuatl, the Aztec language.

~Gary Jennings

Topics: Ancient Interpret Language Learned Read

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When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched.

~Gary Jennings

Topics: Artists Avenue Back Got Made Madison More Realized Switched Than

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I starved and slept on park benches. I wrapped myself in the pages of my manuscript to keep warm. For two and a half years I took odd jobs; nothing was going to deter me.

~Gary Jennings

Topics: Bench Deter Going Half Half Years Jobs Keep Manuscript Me Myself Nothing Odd Pages Park Slept Starved Took Two Warm Wrapped Years

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I write novels, mostly historical ones, and I try hard to keep them accurate as to historical facts, milieu and flavor.

~Gary Jennings

Topics: Accurate Facts Flavor Hard Historical Keep Mostly Novels Them Try Write I Write

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I could list hundreds of words I've come up against in the course of my work that did not exist in the era of which I was writing and for which I never could find a suitably old-time, archaic or obsolete substitute.

~Gary Jennings

Topics: Against Come Could Course Did Era Exist Find Hundreds List Never Obsolete Old-Time Substitute Up Which Words Work Writing

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I contend, most seriously, that there is a real need for a good, thick, complete-as-possible dictionary of 'What People Used to Call Things.'

~Gary Jennings

Topics: Call Contend Dictionary Good Most Need People Real Seriously Thick Things Used

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When I was living in Mexico and writing a book called 'Aztec,' I had to make a deliberate effort to ignore a lot of the 'typically Mexican landscape' around me - banana and citrus groves, roses and carnations, burros and toros - because they did not exist in Mexico in the 15th century, the time of my book.

~Gary Jennings

Topics: Around Banana Because Book Century Citrus Deliberate Did Effort Exist Had Ignore Landscape Living Lot Make Me Mexican Mexico Roses Time Writing

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When I was in Thailand, I went into the up-country because Marco Polo didn't get down into the flesh pots of Bangkok because they didn't exist in those days.

~Gary Jennings

Topics: Bangkok Because Days Down Exist Flesh Get Polo Pots Thailand Those

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Everybody has done something about Marco Polo. It's the tiredest, most trite and worked-over subject in the world, and that was why it appealed to me, because I wanted to do something really new and different about something that had been worked over all these centuries, and I think I did.

~Gary Jennings

Topics: About Appealed Because Been Centuries Did Different Done Everybody Had Me Most New Over Polo Really Something Subject Think Trite Wanted Why Worked World I Think

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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