I'm strictly a one-project-at-a-time kind of guy. If I came up with a compelling idea for a different book while working on… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Lawrence immediately saw that it was a trick question. You would have to be some kind of idiot to make the facile… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
The story is everything, so it always begins with a story.And research is a kind of scaffolding built underneath the story as… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
... when I saw any of those kinds of beauty I knew I was alive, and not just in the sense that… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
He had some measure of the infuriating trait that causes a young man to be a nonconformist for its own sake and… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Hiro is a talented drifter. This is the kind of lifestyle that sounded romantic to him as recently as five years ago.… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Give me an adventure. I'm not talking about some massive adventure. Just something that would make getting fired seem small. Something that… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
But I'm not a small-literary-novel kind of guy, and once I'd developed the world in the first couple of hundred pages, I… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
What writers of fantasy, science fiction, and much historical fiction do for a living is different from what writers of so-called literary… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“I study dead languages for a living,” I said. “That’s why you hired me. Why should I be up to speed on your line… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Other people - store clerks, burger flippers, software engineers, the whole vocabulary of meaningless jobs that make up Life in America - other people… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“It is what you don’t expect,” he’d said, “that most needs looking for.” “Do” — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“...the insects here see you as a big slab of animated but not very well defended food. The ability to move, far from being… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“There was no way that these guys were going to let a bleeding, barefoot woman simply wander off alone into the streets. Two of… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Space and Time! Two minor omissions that no one is likely to notice," grumbled Newton.” — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places, — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Hey,” Shaftoe says, “if we surrender to you, you’ll kill us. Right?” “Yes.” “If you guys surrender to us, we won’t kill you. Promise.… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“My men think you are dead now, and won’t waste balls on you,” Jack said. “In fact I have let you live, but for… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“You’ve probably heard the expression that the Industry feeds off of biomass, like a whale straining krill from the ocean.” — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallowed subcategory. He’s got esprit up to here. Right now, he is preparing to carry out… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Interesting things happen along borders - transitions - not in the middle where everything is the same. — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
