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David Eddings

Date of birth:	07 July 1931
Date of death:	Alive (or unknown)
Country Of Origin:	America
Profession:	Author
Biography:
*David Eddings* (born July 7, 1931) is an United States author who has written several best-selling series of high fantasy novels. David Eddings' wife, *Leigh Eddings, is uncredited as co-author on many of his early books, but has lately been acknowledged as contributing to them all. Born in Spokane, Washington, Washington, Eddings grew up in Puget Sound before graduating with a BA from Reed College in 1954 and an MA from the University of Washington in .... (More...*)

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	" All social workers want is to get everyone involved in a programme. Because a programme provides full employment for three generations of social workers. And they mess up. "		David Eddings

	" But it isn't only younger readers who write to me. I'm getting the middle range, too, and some of them are naming their children after the characters in these books. "		David Eddings

	" But it's been around for so long that if I tried to change it now I'm sure the howls of protest would be heard as far as the moon. "		David Eddings

	" Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I'm teaching a certain number of people to read. Now that sounds pretentious! "		David Eddings

	" Carson City is the most peaceful little town you have ever seen, with about 40,000 people spread out over several miles. "		David Eddings

	" Down on the bottom shelf was a copy of The Two Towers, the second volume of The Lord of the Rings. I looked at it and thought, 'Is this old turkey still kicking around?' "		David Eddings

	" Everybody who is the least bit talented at this sort of thing is going to 'hear' what you're doing, which is a significant factor if stealth is important. "		David Eddings

	" Fortunately they didn't send me to Korea; they sent me to Germany, and with two years of college German I got along fairly well. "		David Eddings

	" Frank Herbert was the fellow who unfortunately received th brunt of this discovery when they attempted to tax him for his books. "		David Eddings

	" He did point out that I'd receive advances for five books as opposed to advances for three books, which was going to net me a significant additional amount of money, and that sort of softened the blow. "		David Eddings

	" He said the only way you can get around it is to come up with believable limitations, and you have to be very specific about what those limitations are right at the outset. "		David Eddings

	" I can only sleep for a few hours, then I'm going to get up whether I want to or not, and as long as I'm up anyway I may as well go to work. So I go to bed at eight and my morning starts at two. "		David Eddings

	" I did fairly well and got a good background in academic English studies. "		David Eddings

	" I feel a sense of responsibility, so I'm pretty vague when I get to sorcery. "		David Eddings

	" I finally sent it off, and rather surprisingly - well, it was astonishing to me - Putnam took it and published it in 1973. "		David Eddings

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