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Q: What is your perspective on Shannon Miller?
A: Do you mean Shannon Faulkner?
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Q: Who is your favorite character in WOT? Who do you relate to most as a person?
A: My favorite character, and the one I relate to most, is the one about whom I am writing at whichever moment I happen to be writing.
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Q: Are your Arthurian legend parallels intended or were they written in and only realized afterwards?
A: They were intended.
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Q: Are you going to continue writing fantasy after the WoT and Shipwreck series are over?
A: Yes.
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Q: Do you do much research once you begin writing? What type of things do you research?
A: Yes, because I need to research things like the details of exactly how a blacksmith works for example.
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Q: So how many books do you THINK are left in the series, at this point?
A: As many as it takes to reach the end, and not one more.
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Q: Do you ever let compassion for a character affect or influence plot development?
A: Never.
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Q: Are the men and women ever going to understand each other? I don't see the characters growing much that way.
A: They're going to try. We'll see how far they get. I've spent forty-odd years trying myself, and I'm not certain how far I've gotten.
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Q: When did you first develop the idea for WOT? How long have you been working on it before it was accepted by a publisher?
A: The very first notion came to me nearly twenty years ago; I spent ten or twelve years mulling it over, told my then-publisher about it, and he offered me a contract.
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Q: Why is Myrelle so heartless? She nearly let Lan die. Why?
A: She's dealing with a man capable of taking her head off before even she could blink and a man who's in a mental state where she can't be sure he won't.
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Q: Are you considering chronicling the latter part of the Age of Legends?
A: No.
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Q: I think your series is wonderful! Do you have any plans for a new series?
A: Thank you. New series: yes, but not until the Wheel is done.
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Q: Your style of writing is so simple, yet so complex that it is a genre all it's own. Will Moiraine come back from the dead since Lanfear and Asmodean apparently have?
A: Read And Find Out -- in fact, I really suggest you Read And Find Out.
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Q: You've lived in Charleston all your life. Is there anything here that's affected your novels?
A: Trying to call them "palmetto bugs" so as not to terrify the tourists has nearly driven me batty. That's about it.
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Q: Not that I'm complaining, but could you write the books faster? I'm dying here.
A: No, I can't write the bloody things any faster, and if I find out where you live, I will send my friends Little Guido and and Harry the Nail around to talk to you.
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Q: Is Aran'gar really Lanfear? If she is, how did she come back?
A: Read And Find Out.
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Q: Exactly how tall is Rand?
A: Six foot five to six foot six.
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Q: Your plots are so detailed and intricate- do you ever get confused about what should happen when?
A: No.
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Q: Why was Perrin not in the Fires of Heaven?
A: He had a lot of things to do back home, and they were all pretty boring.
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Q: Are you aware of the interest that has risen on the internet and here on AOL about your books?
A: Yes.