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David Eddings
American
Author
Born:
Jul 7
,
1931
Died:
Jun 2
,
2009
Contemporary
Life
Mind
Own
Work
You
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I have an unconscious burglar living in my mind: If I read something, it's mine.
David Eddings
Mind
Living
Mine
Something
Unconscious
Read
Burglar
I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.
David Eddings
Happy
Degree
Submit
Sympathize
Had
Wrote
Read
Very
Graduation
Who
Novel
Professors
Publisher
When they ran out of cadre men they gave me my very own platoon and said, 'Here are 63 men, try to keep as many of them alive as you possibly can.' That was one of the more harrowing experiences of my life.
David Eddings
Life
Me
You
Try
Men
My Life
Own
Gave
Ran
Harrowing
Alive
Out
Possibly
More
Cadre
Said
Very
Experiences
Them
Many
Keep
Platoon
Here
I taught in a small teacher's college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didn't.
David Eddings
Teacher
College
Three
Pay
Administrators
Small
Point
Faculty
Got
Years
Taught
Which
Pay Raise
Teaching
Four
Raise
I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction.
David Eddings
Science
Predict
Hesitate
Extreme
General
True
Period
Science Fiction
Opinion
Optimistic
Fiction
Whether
Mankind
Then
Theory
Popularity
If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.
David Eddings
Own
General
Opinion
Going
Hold
Fantasy
Pessimistic
I have an unconscious burglar living in my mind: If I read something, it's mine. I can read Middle English stories, Geoffrey Chaucer or Sir Thomas Malory, but once I start moving in the direction of contemporary fantasy, my mind begins to take over.
David Eddings
Mind
Living
Thomas
Once
Mine
Something
Direction
Take
Chaucer
Unconscious
Over
Contemporary
Read
Geoffrey
Sir
Begins
Burglar
Middle
Stories
Moving
Fantasy
English
Start
I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story.
David Eddings
Good
Prophet
Good Story
Just
Story
Interested
Storyteller
I'm never going to be in danger of getting the Nobel Prize for literature.
David Eddings
Danger
Never
Nobel
Nobel Prize
Prize
Getting
Going
Literature
I have a slightly bad back, which has made an enormous contribution to American literature.
David Eddings
Made
Enormous
Back
Slightly
Bad
Bad Back
Contribution
American
Literature
Which
American Literature
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