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It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.

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I am from a family of artists. Here I am, making a living in the arts. It has not been a rebellion. It's as though I had taken over the family Esso station.

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I was a chemistry major, but I'm always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I've brought scientific thinking to literature. There's been very little gratitude for this.

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I don't plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn't be a closed system - it's a quest.

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I'm screamingly funny, you know, I really am in the books. And that helps because I'm funnier than a lot of people, I think, and that's appreciated by young people.

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Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.

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Over the years, people I've met have often asked me what I'm working on, and I've usually replied that the main thing was a book about Dresden.

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My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV.

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If you appear in the 'Atlantic' or 'Harper's' or the 'New Yorker,' by God, you must be a writer, because everybody says so.

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It is a big temptation to me, when I create a character for a novel, to say that he is what he is because of faulty wiring, or because of microscopic amounts of chemicals which he ate or failed to eat on that particular day.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: November 11th, 1922

Died: April 11th, 2007

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