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First draft: let it run. Turn all the knobs up to 11. Second draft: hell. Cut it down and cut it into shape. Third draft: comb its nose and blow its h...more

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[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it!

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The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.

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There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happil...more

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The world rides through space on the back of a turtle. This is one of the great ancient world myths, found wherever men and turtles were gathered toge...more

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I just rearrange words into a pleasing order for money.

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Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.

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A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.

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He wanted to say: how could you be so nice and yet so dumb? The best thing you could do with the peasents was to leave them alone. Let them get on wit...more

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Whole new theories of money were growing here like mushrooms: in the dark and based on bullshit.

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His granny taught him to read, see. I reckon it overheated his mind.

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How hard can writing be? After all, most of the words are going to be 'and,' 'the,' and 'I,' and 'it,' and so on, and there's a huge number to choose ...more

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I know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large library; I dream of dangerous places.

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The last thing she wanted was to see her friend getting ideas in her head. There was such a lot of room in there for them to bounce around and do dama...more