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With a book, you're guaranteed the audience has a certain skill level and that the audience has to make an ongoing effort to consume this product and ...more

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The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control ...more

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When I first started writing, it was me alone with a computer in my apartment. I hated the time away from other people, and my writing sucked. Now I h...more

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A big reason why I started writing is I felt that fiction had stopped evolving. All other entertainments were getting better, constantly, as technolog...more

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Ideas come at any moment -- except when you demand them. Most ideas come while I'm physically active, at the gym, with friends, gardening, so I always...more

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With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels.

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My teacher Tom Spanbauer, the man who got me started writing in his workshop, used to say: 'Writers write because they weren't invited to a party.' Th...more

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I refuse to give readers an uplifting faux experience engineered to comfort them and perpetuate the sociopolitical and economic status quo.""Who died ...more