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Writing is self employment, so you can make your own schedule.

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Oddly, the military world is one of great sameness. There is an orderly quality to life on an army base, and even the children of the military are brought up with that sense of order and sameness.

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I was fortunate to live for 3 years in another country, and although we lived in an American compound, still as a young adolescent I did venture into the world of the Japanese with great interest and enjoyment. But many Americans never left that safe and familiar life among their own people.

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I think of every book as a single entity, and some have later gone on to become a series, often at the request of readers.

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I was a sidelines child: never class president, never team captain, never the one with the most valentines in my box.

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Kids have no sense of appropriateness. They can ask me whatever they want. You do develop a sense of intimacy with readers, and they tell you things about themselves. During a school year, I'll get e-mails asking about the books. I'll give them information, but I won't do their homework for them.

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I never, as a reader, have been particularly interested in dystopian literature or science fiction or, in fact, fantasy.

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I prefer to surprise myself as I'm writing. I'm not interested in it if I already know where it's going. So I have only the most general sense of what I'm doing when I start a story. I sometimes have a destination in mind, but how the story is going to go from Point A to Point Z is something I make up as I go along.

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You rehear your life by reading about what happens to other people.

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When I was a kid in the '50s, during the Eisenhower years, everything seemed to be working fine. I don't recall as a teenager ever worrying about the state of the future world.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: March 20th, 1937

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