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Everybody has done something about Marco Polo. It's the tiredest, most trite and worked-over subject in the world, and that was why it appealed to me, because I wanted to do something really new and different about something that had been worked over all these centuries, and I think I did.
~ Gary Jennings
About
Appealed
Because
Been
Centuries
Did
Different
Done
Everybody
Had
I Think
Me
Most
New
Over
Polo
Really
Something
Subject
Think
Trite
Wanted
Why
Worked
World
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copy
I contend, most seriously, that there is a real need for a good, thick, complete-as-possible dictionary of 'What People Used to Call Things.'
~ Gary Jennings
Call
Contend
Dictionary
Good
Most
Need
People
Real
Seriously
Thick
Things
Used
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I could list hundreds of words I've come up against in the course of my work that did not exist in the era of which I was writing and for which I never could find a suitably old-time, archaic or obsolete substitute.
~ Gary Jennings
Against
Come
Could
Course
Did
Era
Exist
Find
Hundreds
List
Never
Obsolete
Old-Time
Substitute
Up
Which
Words
Work
Writing
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copy
I learned to interpret the ancient pictograph codices and read Nahuatl, the Aztec language.
~ Gary Jennings
Ancient
Interpret
Language
Learned
Read
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I starved and slept on park benches. I wrapped myself in the pages of my manuscript to keep warm. For two and a half years I took odd jobs; nothing was going to deter me.
~ Gary Jennings
Bench
Deter
Going
Half
Half Years
Jobs
Keep
Manuscript
Me
Myself
Nothing
Odd
Odd Jobs
Pages
Park
Slept
Starved
Took
Two
Warm
Wrapped
Years
design
copy
I write novels, mostly historical ones, and I try hard to keep them accurate as to historical facts, milieu and flavor.
~ Gary Jennings
Accurate
Facts
Flavor
Hard
Historical
I Write
Keep
Mostly
Novels
Them
Try
Write
design
copy
In the 20th century alone, there have been 1,600 books about the circus. My adding one more would be superfluous unless I do something totally new and different.
~ Gary Jennings
20th Century
About
Adding
Alone
Been
Books
Century
Circus
Different
More
New
Something
Superfluous
Totally
Unless
Would
Would-Be
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To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.
~ Gary Jennings
Afghanistan
Camel
Caravan
Get
Smugglers
Way
design
copy
When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched.
~ Gary Jennings
Artists
Avenue
Back
Got
Made
Madison
Madison Avenue
More
Realized
Switched
Than
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When I was in Thailand, I went into the up-country because Marco Polo didn't get down into the flesh pots of Bangkok because they didn't exist in those days.
~ Gary Jennings
Bangkok
Because
Days
Down
Exist
Flesh
Get
Polo
Pots
Thailand
Those
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When I was living in Mexico and writing a book called 'Aztec,' I had to make a deliberate effort to ignore a lot of the 'typically Mexican landscape' around me - banana and citrus groves, roses and carnations, burros and toros - because they did not exist in Mexico in the 15th century, the time of my book.
~ Gary Jennings
Around
Banana
Because
Book
Century
Citrus
Deliberate
Did
Effort
Exist
Had
Ignore
Landscape
Living
Lot
Make
Me
Mexican
Mexico
Roses
Time
Writing
design
copy
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Gary Jennings
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20 September, 1928
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13 February, 1999
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