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I read a lot of history for fun.

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I've always believed that as an artist, as a writer, you need a lot of contact with other people to make your art good.

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Fantasy is fantasy. It's fiction. It's not meant to be a textbook. I don't believe in letting research overwhelm the fiction. That's a danger of science fiction in particular, as opposed to fantasy. A lot of writers forget that what they're doing is supposed to be art.

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I tend to like writing characters that are not typical heroes.

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I tend to write society as I see and understand it.

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My first series, the 'Inheritance' trilogy, in the first book, you were dealing with a woman of color from an impoverished culture, being brought up among wealthy, privileged white people and having to cope and perform in ways that she has not been raised to do, and that was obviously drawn from some personal experiences.

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There's a tendency in American thought - maybe elsewhere, but that's the culture I know best - to default to social Darwinism, even though even Darwin noted that's a misapplication of his ideas.

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When I start a new novel, I often write 'test chapters' in different tenses and from different points of view in order to figure out which is best to tell the tale.

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I write for myself - but it is nice when other people like it, too!

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I would love to just write and not have everything I say or do turn into a political battle.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: September 19th, 1972

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