Eric Flint Quotes

#1. The 'Heirs of Alexandria' series mixes the Renaissance with magic and demons, based on a changed theological history.

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#2. Conspiracies existed, to be sure; many of them, and many were dark indeed. But fiendish? Fiendishness required brains. Nine times out of ten, conspirators behaved like buffoons and wound up exposing themselves out of sheer, bumbling incompetence.

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#3. My first published novel was 'Mother of Demons,' which is simply 'The High Crusade' standing on its head. Poul Anderson placed his medieval human heroes in a futuristic alien setting; I placed my futuristic human heroes in a bronze age alien setting.

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#4. Poul Anderson's 'The High Crusade' may have had a greater impact on my development as a writer than any other book I ever read.

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#5. Good writing just isn't that common.

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#6. By the time I was twenty-three, I'd given up any thought of becoming a fiction writer, and I didn't return to the craft for over two decades. But, at the age of forty-five, return I did.

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#7. Strength grows from building other strength, not from trampling on weakness.

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