If you're going to write for a living, you should find something fun to write. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar,… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Life begets intelligence, intelligence begets smart matter and a singularity. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I'd like to be proven wrong firstly on the difficulty of building a self-sustaining closed circuit ecosystem in space that can support… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think death is even more inevitable than taxes," his grandmother replies bleakly. "Humans don’t live in a vacuum; we’re part… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“Private ownerships of a ...slave chip is illegal in many polities. It tends to be a government monopoly, much like other forms… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
What I've learned during my life is that the near future is 90% identical to the present - if you buy a… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
An important factor to note is that it's rare for anyone to sell a first novel written before they turned 30-35; long-format… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“First and most importantly, death is just the absence of life—oh, and for human beings, the absence of consciousness, too, but not… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
The real world is devoid of narratives, after all. Narratives are just a thing that our brains do with facts in order… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“All life is based on the destruction of other life, even on tremendous scales of space and time... Our ancestors understood that… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I suspect political fiction is at its best precisely when it doesn't preach, but restricts itself to showing the reader a different… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
For someone who is starting out on developing their critical skills, just being aware of its existence is great: it can make… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
We are Bay Aryans from Berkeley: prepare to be reengineered in an attractive range of color schemes for your safety and comfort! — Charles Stross Copy Share
“Shut up. Stand up. Put this on. That’s right . . . if you were the kind of man who found it easy to do that kind… — Charles Stross Copy Share
Generating ideas isn't some mystical talent that you have to be born with: it's a skill you can develop. — Charles Stross Copy Share
Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases. — Charles Stross Copy Share
Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life. — Charles Stross Copy Share
“- Toma un puro, Sherlock. - Lo siento; sólo echo humo cuando me enchufan a la red eléctrica.” — Charles Stross Copy Share
I have no policy, for or against: only a personal style. Which is to say, I use them when I think it's appropriate to;… — Charles Stross Copy Share
I was raised thinking that moral and ethical standards are universals that apply equally to everyone. And these values aren't easily compatible with the… — Charles Stross Copy Share
“Some say the Internet is for porn but you know that in truth the Internet is for spam.” — Charles Stross Copy Share
If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty. — Charles Stross Copy Share
“If he wakes the ancient sleeping horrors I am going to have to brief the private secretary and the Joint Intelligence Oversight Committee so… — Charles Stross Copy Share
“Crawling eldritch horrors don’t get planning permission unless they’re Trump’s hairpiece.)” — Charles Stross Copy Share
“A historian who works for a bank: That’s not the most likely background for someone who capers around the cosmos having adventures, is it?” — Charles Stross Copy Share
